Neuhörnitz Castle
The Neuhörnitz Castle , today mostly as a brewery Hörnitz known, is a former castle in the village Hörnitz the community Bertsdorf-Hörnitz in the district Görlitz , Saxony .
location
The dilapidated ensemble of buildings, surrounded by a park, is located at the eastern foot of the Koitsche (375 m above sea level) on Zittauer Strasse in Hörnitz. The Hörnitzer Friedhof adjoins it to the southeast.
history
Gut Neuhörnitz
In 1540 the brothers Baltzer, George and Christoph von Debschitz divided the Hörnitz manor near Eichberg among themselves. Baltzer and George combined their shares to form the Althörnitz manor ; Christoph von Debschitz's share consisted of a Vorwerk that became a special fief as a freehold . In 1543, Hans von Uechtritz sold the estate with the associated four gardeners for 800 thalers to the Zittau council , who in the following year left it to the royal judge in Zittau, Hans Engelmann, without the subjects for 1700 Zittau marks. The judge sold the estate on September 18, 1549 to the Görlitz mint master Matthäus Hauschild. On April 15, 1551, Hauschild, who was now mint master in Prague, received in the so-called Neuhörnitz Majesty Letter from King Ferdinand I the pardon, as compensation for the four gardeners who had been withdrawn from his estate, to suspend gardeners and cottagers as well as the former Uechtritz courts with their own judges and to re-occupy five elders. Hauschild had the majority of the fields parceled out and the village of Neuhörnitz laid out on them. In 1553 he sold the Neuhörnitz estate and village after disputes with the Zittau council to the royal judge in Zittau, Augustin von Kohlo. On July 22, 1576, von Kohlo left the estate to the Zittauer Syndicus Wenzel Lankisch. Mayor Nikolaus von Dornspach's stepson was not looking for a fiefdom for Gut Neuhörnitz. In 1582, Emperor Rudolf II declared Neuhörnitz to be a noble free estate and raised him and his descendants to the nobility as "Noble von Lankisch auf Neu-Hörnitz". After that, Neuhörnitz was passed on as a free estate within the von Lankisch family for 160 years. Gottfried Heinrich von Lankisch got into economic hardship in the middle of the 18th century and initially led unsuccessful sales negotiations with the Althörnitzer rule. Finally he sold the estate in 1745 to the Zittau merchant Gottfried Hering.
The location of the old manor is not known; possibly it was on the site of the castle or above the Althörnitzer Hof on the wall in the Lower Garden, where the remains of the wall were also found.
Neuhörnitz Castle
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Before 1751, Gottfried Hering had a baroque castle with farm buildings and a large garden built on Hörnitzer Viehweg. The narrow two-storey building with a mansard roof has a risalit-like central section that breaks through the eaves line as a roof house.
Gottfried Hering died in 1752, his son and heir was the Zittau councilor Christian August Hering. Thereafter, his widow Johanne Eleonore, née Krodel, owned Neuhörnitz until her death in 1819.
In 1820 the Zittau council bought the Neuhörnitz estate from Messrs. Krodel and Wittich from Zittau. He ordered the sale of the former manor house with accessories and some field as an outdoor garden to the brothers Christlieb Benjamin and Johann Christoph Hänsel. The council kept the rest of the estate, including the village of Neuhörnitz, in its possession. The Hansel brothers and their successors were given the obligation to keep the bell clock in the turret on the servant's house constantly going. The ringing of the bell at noon and in the evening, as well as the ringing of the fire, happened on a voluntary basis.
Hörnitz brewery
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The Hörnitz brewery was founded in 1866. By 1867 the former castle was converted into a brewery with an attached restaurant. The original beauty inside the building was lost.
The brewery traded as Neuhörnitz Brewery (1870), Lebrecht Byhain Brewery (1880), EA Halang Castle Brewery (1897), Neuhörnitz Castle Brewery Fr. August Boethig (1907) and Neuhörnitz Castle Brewery Paul Gerhard Boethig (1919).
Until the 1950s, the Gerhard Böthig company produced beer and lemonades. After the expropriation of the Böthig family, the brewery was stopped in GDR times, and later the production of lemonade was given up and the property was left to decay.
Since 2005 the psychosocial contact and counseling center in Zittau "Albatros" has been trying to preserve the old Hörnitz castle brewery and to restore the overgrown castle grounds.
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 125–126.
- Gottfried Benjamin Vogt: Chronicle of Alt- and Neuhörnitz near Zittau , Part II: Chronicle of Neu-Hörnitz, Zittau 1830 ( digital copy of the SLUB )
- Gustav Adolf Pönicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony III. Section. Expedition of the album Sächsischer Rittergüter und Schlösser, Leipzig 1854–1861, pages 248–249. ( Digital full-text edition at Wikisource )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Association takes care of old brewery goods , Sächsische Zeitung, Zittau edition, February 12, 2009
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 1 ″ N , 14 ° 44 ′ 36 ″ E