Pechhof Castle

The listed former Pechhof Castle (historically the spelling Pechoffen or Bechof (f) en is also passed down) is located in the Pechhof district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Schwarzenbach in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district of Bavaria (Pechhof 5 and 9). The castle was one of many Upper Palatinate hammer locks , with the local iron hammer being driven by the water of the Haidenaab .

history

The "hammer zu Pechoffen" was first mentioned in 1413, according to the Salbuch it had to pay money to Walburgis , d. H. on February 25, and at Michaelis , d. H. on September 29th, pay. After the middle of the 15th century, the three iron hammers Troschelhammer , Dießfurth and Pechhof formed the cohesive manor unit of the Landsasserei Dißfurth. Its first owner was Sebald Kreß , who came from a patrician family from Nuremberg and was accepted as an Upper Palatinate landlord during the reign of Elector Friedrich the Victorious . Hans Kreß still owned the manor district at the beginning of the 16th century. In 1518 the brothers Joachim, Sebald and Hans Kreß were named there. In 1545 and 1548 only Joachim Kreß is shown in the Landsassen register.

Schwarzenbach coat of arms: The sword in the red field is derived from the family coat of arms of the Nuremberg patrician Kreß.

He was followed by Margarete, née Kreß, who was married to Christoph von Zedtwitz. After his death, the sons Joachim and Heinrich von Zedtwitz agree on an inheritance division in 1571, according to which Dießfurth and Pechofen passed to Christoph Heinrich and Troschelhammer came to Joachim von Zedtwitz. In 1576 Christoph Heinrich von Zedtwitz sold Dießfurth and Pechhof to his brother-in-law Hans Reinhard Wild zu Wildenreuth . From this his son Hans Neidhart Wild inherited the Landsasserei, which now consists of two estates. He died on September 13, 1611 and left behind a highly indebted property.

After that, "Bechoffen" was in the hands of Hans von Podevils, according to the official list of 1622, who bought it from the Wildischen Creditoren; a lock, a hammer and a mill are mentioned. Hans von Podevils, because he was not of Catholic faith, was deprived of the lower jurisdiction and assigned to the Waldeck-Kemnath office. He was also expelled from the country because of his denomination. His son Erdmann Ernst von Podewils was able to get the three goods back into his hands, but was also not allowed to stay in the country because of his religion. According to an estimate by the Speinhart monastery judge Sebastian Anzenhover, Pechhof was described as "partly ruined, but partly in good health"; After all, there was a large amount of Sünter (metal slag, also called Sinder) here. In 1666, in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War , it was said that "the hammer is down, there is no hope that the hammer that has been denied will be recovered". Even after the Thirty Years' War, Erdmann Ernst von Podewils was named as a Landsasse. Veit Christoph von Podewils lived there in 1674 and Ullrich Christoph von Podewils in 1693/94. The latter's widow, Rebekka Christophora, née von Hirschberg, sold the manors Dießfurth and Pechhof in 1710 to her youngest son, Christoph Erdmann von Podewils. In 1712 he had to compare himself with his sisters, who in 1715 and 1717 sold their shares in Pechhof to their brother-in-law Georg Ernst von Reiss, a Bavarian captain. He sold the Hammergut Pechhof to Johann Friedrich von Eberts on June 18, 1732, despite an objection from the Amberg government. In the hearth description from 1761 , the castle in Pechhof with an administrator as a resident and a manorial hammer house with eight residents are mentioned again.

In 1774 Pechhof came to Joseph von Heldmann from the widow of Johann Friedrich von Eberts. In 1806 he handed over his property to his son Ignaz von Heldmann. He was also refused the resignation of the compulsory Landsassen and in the course of a review procedure on February 1, 1808 the freedom of the Landsassen was withdrawn from Dießfurth and Pechhof. In the course of further development, the Pressath sub-office , to which Pechhof also belonged, came to the Eschenbach district court in 1841, to the Erbendorf district court in March 1849 and to the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district in 1972 .

Pechhof Castle today

The manor house of the former hammer mill is a two-storey semi walmdachbau with stone jambs , belt and Sohlbankgesimsen called with the year "1828". The architectural style is classical . The former glass grinding shop next to it is also a two-storey two-wing building with a crooked and gable roof with the year "1840". The Mühlgraben with remains of the former water system can still be seen. The utility building adjoining the manor house to the north is an angular saddle roof building with a stable from the 19th century.

literature

• Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. Landrichteramt Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath (p. 74ff, 167, 245, 266). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 40). Commission for Bavarian State History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7696-9902-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Greule: German book of water names: Etymology of water names and the associated area, settlement and field names. P. 502. de Gruyter Mouton 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-019039-7 .

Web links

• Aerial view of Schwarzenbach

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 6.4 ″  E