Rohrbach Castle (Kallmünz)

The Rohrbach castle is a Grade II listed building Am Anger 1 / Mühlweg 1 in the district of Rohrbach of the market Kallmünz in the district of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

Hammerschloss Rohrbach

history

Rohrbach is mentioned as early as the 9th century. It originally belonged to the Margraves of Hohenburg . On September 20, 1241, Berthold von Hohenburg gave the castle and village of Rohrbach to Bishop Siegfried von Regensburg and got it back as a fief. After the death of the last Hohenburger (1257), Duke Ludwig of Bavaria claimed Rohrbach as a Wittelsbach fiefdom, but had to hand it over to the Regensburg Monastery in 1272 . Since then, the feudal sovereignty remained with the diocese of Regensburg.

The widow Alheit of Ulrich von Rohrbach is mentioned as the first hammer owner in Rohrbach on January 19, 1370, who, like her sons Rüger, Jörg and Steffen, comes from Amberg . They operated a rail hammer here , which was later converted into a sheet metal hammer . In 1444 Konrad Braun and the brothers Niklas and Albrecht Areisen owned the hammer and mill in Rohrbach as a fiefdom of Bishop Friedrich von Regensburg. On June 26, 1445, the Amberg citizen Hans B (P) achmann received the tin hammer in Rohrbach. He was able to pay off the debts and also operated an ore mine on the "Arzberg" near Rohrbach. In 1457 Conrad Knorr († 1481) was hammer master zu Rohrbach, but had to hand over the hammer to the rent master Michel Walrab because of his debts. In 1523 Hans Pleyer, hammer master of Schönhofen , resides here. In 1536 the hammer was operated by Leonhard Winkelmann. Wolfgang Sauerzapf followed in 1545 ; this family held the hammer with Carl Ferdinand Sauerzapf until the family died out in 1762. He left his inheritance to his maternal relatives, the Stettners von Grabenhof. Although other relatives litigated against this will, the property was passed on to the following intestinal heirs (i.e. heirs in legal order): Colonel Johann Christoph von Grabenhofen, Johann and Gottfried Stettner von Grabenhofen and to General Ludwig August Wilhelm von Phul as a client on behalf of his mother-in-law widowed Colonel von Kässlau, née Stettnerin von Grabenhofen. This community of heirs sold the property on October 7, 1779 to Lieutenant Colonel von Adrian, who in 1784 already owned the property to the imperial sailor Joseph von Axthalb, who already owned the neighboring Traidendorf . After several successors, the property was smashed.

Marriage coat of arms of Johann Daniel Sauerzapf and his wife Elisabeth Stettner

Corner bay window of Hammerschloss Rohrbach with the year 1586

The Sauerzapf have their family grave in the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Rohrbach, as evidenced by various tombstones of this family. On the flat ceiling of the nave of this church there is also the coat of arms of Johann Daniel Sauerzapf and his wife Elisabeth Stettner von Grabenhof, who married in 1683.

Hammerschloss Rohrbach with a former castle tavern

building

The former hammer lock is a late Gothic three-storey and eaves gable house with a laterally offset oriel house from 1586 (referenced); this building was built by Hans Melchior Sauerzapf. The two-storey wing building with a gable roof and profiled stone portal probably dates from the 17th century. The former castle tavern is attached to the castle.

In 1586 the castle was added in the form of a bay window. Today the castle is privately owned.

Glass loop to Rohrbach

The Rohrbach grinding and polishing plant (now also known as the Rauschermühle ) was located on the Forellenbach near the hammer lock . Franz von Paur, who already operated such plants in Loisnitz (now part of Teublitz ) and Münchshofen, applied for the establishment of the plant . In 1817 he submitted an additional application for a concession to operate a mirror glass loop. After Franz von Paur the owners were Xaver Heindl (1816), Joseph Eigner (1852), Ferdinand Fleißner von Thann (1855), Georg Weigert (1880), Lorenz Zoebelin from Nuremberg (1882), Georg Wittmann (1925) and Tobias Maul ( 1935). Production ceased in the 1930s, and in 1937 the ruins were converted into a house for Tobias Maul.

literature

• Georg Dehio , Drexler Jolanda / Hubel Achim (arrangement): Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate - handbook of German art monuments. German art publisher, 1991.
• Franz Michael Ress: Buildings, monuments and foundations of German ironworkers . Written on behalf of the Association of German Ironworkers . Verlag Stahleisen, Düsseldorf 1960, DNB  453998070 , p. 132-133 .
• Reinhard Dähne & Wolfgang Roser: The Bavarian Iron Road from Pegnitz to Regensburg. House of Bavarian History, Volume 5, Munich 1988, p. 37.
• Hans Nikol: Hofmark and Hammer Rohrbach. Die Oberpfalz , Volume 60, 1972, pp. 295-305 and pp. 330-334.

Web links

Commons : Hammerschloss Rohrbach  - Collection of images

• Entry on Rohrbach (hammer lock) in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sturm, Gabriele: The glass loops in the Altlandkreis Burglengenfeld. Annual volume on culture and history in the district of Schwandorf, Volume 4, 1993, pp. 94–114.

Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 6.9 ″  E