Metzenhof Castle

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Metzenhof Manor (1920)

The former hammer and the disused Metzenhof Castle is located in the Metzenhof district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Kirchenthumbach in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district in Bavaria .

history

The hammer Metzenhof is mentioned for the first time in the directory of the Upper Palatinate hammer cleaning from 1387. The owner was the Hammerherr Ortlieb Nequer (also called Naquer or Neuber ). Children of the Ortlieb Nequer remained on the hammer to 1544, sometimes they also had a Burghut to Thurndorf and Eschenbach . In 1439 Engelbert Nequer sold the perpetual interest from Veste Bibrach , which had come to him from his brother-in-law Hans dem Bybracher or from his housewife. In 1460 and 1488 Wilhelm and Hans Nequer were named as Landsassen zu Metzenhof and Kumpf. As country residents they now had to serve the sovereign with a horse. In 1499 Caspar Nequer appeared at Metzenhof and Kumpf . Under Hans and Diepold Nequer , brothers to Metzenhof and Kumpf and castle guardians of Eschenbach, Kumpf and Metzenhof are united, from now on only Metzenhof is spoken of.

Coat of arms of the block according to Siebmacher's book of arms

Presumably they then sold the Hammergut, because from now on the Klotz family will appear on the hammer for two centuries. This family was very early involved in the hammer and iron business; a Jacob Klotz joined the hammer cleaning company in 1499. In 1415 a Hans Klotz , owner of the Metzenhof, sued the Auerbach regional court against a Köllner from Zirkendorf . He was probably only in possession of the hammer for a short time, but otherwise had wealth in Bruck, Freishammer and Bodenwöhr . In 1550 we are talking about a Hans Klotz , who also owned the hammer at Hellziechen in 1555 , and who sold the hammer in Bodenwöhr in order to settle in Metzenhof. In 1544 he renounced his sovereign rights, but got them back in 1570. Hans Klotz died in 1572 and was buried in Thurndorf . His epitaph was to the left of the entrance door and had the inscription "On December 19, 1575 Erbar and Vest Hans Klotz passed away to Metzenhof, to whom the Almighty bestowed a happy resurrection". The family coat of arms shows a stag's head with eight-pointed antlers and the inscription “Christ is my life, dying is my gain - Mors janua vitae!” His heirs were his nephews Hans Christoph and Hans Jakob Leonhard Klotz zu Portenreuth , until Hans Christoph took over the Metzenhof alone . His wife Sibylla Klotzin is mentioned as a widow in 1592. She is given permission to build a tin hammer in her hammer . She was struggling to keep the hammer going, especially because of the lack of charcoal. She died on November 30, 1606 and her tombstone was on the right of the Thurndorf church wall . There were two sons from the marriage: Konrad Klotz was a co-owner of Eschenbach, had been widowed since 1619 and died of the plague in 1633 at an advanced age . His brother Georg Wilhelm also died of this disease in the same year. Konrad Klotz had two sons again, the son Emanuel Klotz rose in Lauff from colonel in the Swabian district to electoral privy councilor, to senior bailiff and in 1651 to governor of Heilbronn . His brother Hans managed the Hammergut under silent circumstances, but he also owned subjects from Braunershof (today in the area of ​​the Grafenwöhr military training area) and Stegenthumbach . On the one hand, much had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War , and on the other hand, cheaper iron from Bohemia had created economic competition. In 1653, the Auerbach Regional Court "disputed and doubted" Metzenhof's court righteousness. When Hans Kotz died in 1654, the property was completely lost . In the same year Johann Sigismund Kotz von Portenreuth , son of the aforementioned Hans Jakob Leonhard Klotz zu Portenreuth, bought the estate. He was a good Catholic and did his duty on November 25, 1654, his wife was "non-Catholic" and only converted in 1664. In 1657 he also bought Kirchenthumbach and from 1660 called himself Kotz von Metzenhof, Portenreuth and Kirchenthumbach . Heir was his son Hans Christoph , who died in 1693 (or 1698) at the age of 71. The Hammergut now went to his brothers Emanuel Christoph Klotz and Johann Sigmund Klotz . The first is named as the owner of Metzenhof in 1698 and died in 1729. The second (he is called zu Metzenhof, Portenreuth and Thumbach) appears in the state parliament in 1706 and dies in 1739. A chapel from their time is called "Zur heiligen Dreifaltigkeit" near the castle, where Emanuel Christoph Klotz makes the request to be able to visit the fair here because he can not come to Thurnbach of illness. The pastor of Thurnbach granted him (also because he was a benefactor of the church) the requested license “ad dies vitae”. The chapel was deserted in 1802 and was converted into a home for the gardener. In 1980/81 a new chapel was built in Metzenhof and consecrated on July 12, 1981; as patron of the church, St. Francis of Assisi was elected. A bell from 1950 hangs above the entrance to this modern chapel building.

In 1735 the keeper of Eschenbach reported that the son Franz Ferdinand Klotz and his estates Metzenhof, Walbershof and Praunershof together with the Kirchenthumbach estate had given up his duties. He was also granted a license to worship Metzenhof. He is known to have had a lawsuit with the Speinshart Monastery , as in 1736 he did not want to allow the monastery carriages to pass through. The dispute was not settled until 1755. He was the last of the Klotz in the male line and died in 1759. His daughter Anna Maria Ernestina married the Austrian baron and captain Karl von Thannenberg († 1762) on March 13, 1745 and brought him the Klotz possessions in 1759 . Their only daughter Maria Josepha Anna Franziska married an officer named Jung in their first marriage on May 6, 1763 and a second marriage to Joachim Maximilian Bernhardt LB Froenau on Offenstetten on September 21, 1766 , he was a Bavarian dragoon captain and he inherited the property in 1774. He was also allowed to worship in Metzenhof; however, his wish for his own chaplain was refused. When he died in 1789, the bells were rung for half an hour, as was the case when he was installed, that cost 3 fl , the 24 candles cost 6 fl, and another 3 fl must be paid for the altar wine and the paraments . On the grave slab in the middle of the aisle of the church in Thurndorf is the following inscription: “ Here the high and well-born Johann Max Reichsfreiherr von Frönau rests on Offenstetten and Metzenhof, his electoral prince. Your Highness in Palatinate-Bavaria, real lieutenant colonel of Löbl. General Wallischen Dragoon Regiment, feudal lord of the city of Cham. Born in the 1736th year June 16 and died October 19, 1789. "

In 1798 the lieutenant colonel widow Josepha Freiin von Frönau zu Metzenhof bought half the share of Unterschnaittenbach , but sold it again in 1803.

Offenstetten, Metzenhof and Braunershof are inherited by the son Josef Johann Max von Frönau . In 1795 he also applied to have mass read in a specially furnished room in the castle, since he could get clergy from Speinshart Monastery for it at any time. In 1822 he built a Zainhammer after winning a lawsuit against the owner of Haslmühl; However, he had to get the coal from his own forest so that the wood would not become more expensive for the neighbors. In 1845 the owner of Metzenhof employed 120 Metzenhof residents with his iron smelter, the Zain hammer and the gun hammer , a lime kiln and a brick factory.

In 1860, Karl Freiherr von Redwitz sat at Metzenhof with his wife Petronilla von Spermark and his sons Alexander and Franz . The manor Metzenhof then belonged to Prince Heinrich XXII. von Reuss zu Greiz (Principality of Reuss older line ) and after his death in 1902 his family, who sold it in 1917.

The baroque palace building with a mighty hipped roof was demolished in 1945, and Hermann Göring acquired the roof structure for the reconstruction of Veldenstein Castle . The independent community of Metzenhof was incorporated into Kirchenthumbach in 1946. At the place of the castle (Metzenhof 1) there is now a riding facility with a riding hall, horse stable and an outdoor riding arena.

literature

  • Paulinus Fröhlich: Kirchenthumbach: Contributions to the history and cultural history of the market Kirchenthumbach. Pp. 187-1949. Laßleben, Kallmünz 1951.
  • “Schlößl” in Tagmann's long history behind it. In: Onetz . August 31, 2016 ( onetz.de ).

Web links

  • Entry on Metzenhof in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  • Metzenhof on aerial photo Laumer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Churches of the parish of the Assumption of Mary, Kirchenthumbach. S. 13. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-6973-3 .
  2. ^ Georg Leingärtner: Amberg district judge . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 24). Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 104 , above ( geschichte.digitale-sammlungen.de [accessed on February 6, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Altpostgeschichte from January 8, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ Stefan Benz: Castles and palaces between Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia. In: Deutsche Burgenvereinigung (Hrsg.): Magazine for castles and palaces. 2/2002, p. 66 ff.
  5. ↑ Decision of the administrative association Kirchenthumbach of December 1, 2016 (PDF), accessed on February 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ The Eisenmann family builds an equestrian facility. Horse and rider in good hands. In: Onetz . September 7, 2016 ( onetz.de ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 51.2"  E