Kettnitzmühle Castle

The listed Kettnitzmühle Castle is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Wernberg-Köblitz in the Schwandorf district of Bavaria (Kettnitzmühle 1).

history

The two country estates Kettnitzmühle and Damelsdorf were first mentioned in a document in 1563. At that time they had already been in the hands of Nabburg syndic Hans Ködnit for two decades . In 1545, he intended to sell Damelsdorf to Landgrave Georg von Leuchtenberg . The Amberg councilors initially refused to do this, but informed the responsible court chamber in Heidelberg , referring to the special merits of Ködnit. Thereupon the sovereign Hans Ködnit granted on January 22nd, 1549 the right of the Landsassen to Kettnitzmühle and Damelsdorf. The owner then postponed his intention to sell and only sold his goods to Wolf Christoph von Seckendorf in the mid-1960s . He held the two estates until 1575 and then sold them to David Kastner , the descendant of an important Amberg family of entrepreneurs. David Kastner was first married to Sidonie Persch von Hohenburg in 1569 and, after her death, was married to Margarete, widow of Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg and née Sauerzapf von Rohrbach . He succeeded in advancing to the Upper Palatinate landed gentry, in 1575 Count Palatine Ludwig granted him the freedom of the landlords for the Hammer Unter schnaittenbach (owned by the Kastner family since 1398) and for all goods that he or his successors should acquire in the future. David Kastner died on April 25, 1590 at the age of 49. Since his only daughter died a little later, his property fell to his widow Margarete , who married a cousin of her husband, Hans Wilhelm Kastner , in 1593 . The Kettnitzmühle and Demeldorf estates were initially awarded to him as deß David Castner's Agnat vndt Successor , but in 1613 there were differences with the nursing office , as the latter gave the Kastner Hintersassen a “hunter's money” and Hans Wilhelm Kastner had to struggle with economic difficulties. He died in 1620 and no longer had to experience the further decline due to the effects of the Thirty Years' War . In 1625 a fire destroyed the estate in Unterschnaittenbach, and 70-year-old Margarete and her daughter Anna Eva also died . Attempts by the Amberg government to sell the Kastner estates in Schnaittenbach, Kettnitzmühle and Damelsdorf because of the heavy debts they caused failed after several attempts. Ultimately, the children of Hans Wilhelm , Hans Wilhelm the Younger and his sister Katharina Kastner , who had married the hammer mill owner Christoph Hegner von Altenweiher, agreed on a division of property: Hans Wilhelm the Younger was to receive the Hammergut zu Unterschnaittenbach and the Kettnitzmühle and Christoph Hegner in Name of his wife Damelsdorf.

Damelsdorf subsequently changed hands frequently. The heirs of Christoph Hegner sold the estate to Johann Bartholomäus Schäffer in the middle of the 17th century, who then sold it to Augustin von Fritsch in 1652 . In his place, on July 11, 1676, his widow resigned from her duties as guardian of her children. After the death of Maria Salome von Fritsch , née von Sickenhausen , the inheritance fell in equal parts to the daughters of lawyer Johann Caspar Müller , Maria Martha and Johanna Maria Rosina , married Griennagel . On December 11, 1694, Johann Reinhard Griennagel resigned from compulsory Landsassen. A few years later (1698) her husband Maximilian Adolf von Boslarn did this for Maria Martha . In 1740 Dameldorf was reunited in one hand under Franz Joseph von Boslarn . In the name of his wife, daughter of Franz Joseph von Boslarn , the Landsasserei was held from 1772 to 1779 by Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Pelkofen , Straubing treasurer and councilor. He then sold this to Johann Philipp Müller , rent chamber councilor and hunting officer, who gave up duty on September 11, 1779. Since he could not prove the necessary qualifications, he sold the jurisdiction rights to Appelationsrat von Korb on July 26, 1813 . These fell back to the heirs of Johann Philipp Müller , who died on November 1, 1815 , but since they were also not aristocrats , they could not exercise these rights. In 1819 all Damelsdorf properties were allodified .

Major parts of the Kettnitzmühle estate (mill, mill pond) were split off in 1625; What remained was the small castle (popularly called Kutter Guettl ), the tavern, four small houses and various properties. Strangely enough, Hans Wilhelm Kastner is not registered as the owner of the estate in the registers of the state. Even after his death († 1634) his widow Barbara Kastner , daughter of Daniel Modler von Holzhammer and married to Philipp Jacob von Steinling in Steinbach and Weickersried , does not appear in the Landsassen registries. Even when she married the hammer master Claudius Schorri for the third time after the death of her second husband († 1649) , the registers are without a corresponding note. However, it is noted there in 1650 that Köttnitsmühl will move away from it and into a liberated hand . Only Jacob Christoph Kastner , who married Eva Maria , Barbara Modler's only child from her marriage to Hans Wilhelm Kastner , gave up duty again at the end of the 17th century. The Kettnitzmühle was handed over prematurely to his daughter Anna Margarete and her husband Johann Reinhard Wolf von Steinhausen and recognized again as a mess. The daughter from this marriage was Maria Anna Franziska Ernestine , who had married Johann Friedrich Joseph Münsterer von Stefling . He was again refused registration. In 1742, his widow sold the Rüttergut Köttnizmühl with a small castle and a small Wildbann to the clerk at Wernberg, Georg Paul Hann and his wife Anna Margarete . After his death a dispute broke out again about the legal quality of the property. After a first attempt to sell it had failed due to the government's objection, the property came to son-in-law Georg Seegerer . His application for recognition as a Landsasse was approved. The small hunting justice was not granted to him and in the course of this dispute the lower jurisdiction was again exercised by the nursing office. In 1782 the estate was sold to Franz Michael Gropper despite the unclear legal status. Between 1790 and 1798 he applied for brewing and hunting rights several times, but in 1807 jurisdiction over Kettnitzmühle was withdrawn from the state.

Kettnitzmühle Castle today

The core of the former castle dates from the 18th century. It is a long section with a hipped roof in the west and a gable in the east. On the south-west corner there is a house chapel, also from the 18th century.

literature

• Elisabeth Müller-Luckner: Nabburg (pp. 149–159). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 50). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7696-9915-7 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 29.4 "  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 41.1"  E