Schlackenhof Castle

The listed Schlackenhof Castle is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Kemnath in the Tirschenreuth district (Schlackenhof 13).

history

Allegedly, the Slawatenhouen residence was first mentioned in 1298. Perhaps this was one of the founding of the Counts of Schweinfurt . Schlackenhof is documented with certainty in the fief book from the time before 1400 of the Leuchtenbergers , here it says: Item Herman, Hanns Albrecht and Ott di Santner have to fief… Slankenhofen . The shares in Schlackenhof, which were distributed among different families, were bought by Fritz Stössl and then passed on to his son Hermann Stössl . Then parts of it go to the Pfeffer family from Weidenberg . In 1444 the Sendelbeck family is mentioned on the Schlackenhof. The property, which is divided into several ownership shares, was reunited in one hand around 1500 by the Kemnath citizen Paul Tollhopf . In 1513 it was handed over to the son-in-law Jacob von Löneisen , the Schlackenhof pledged to Georg von Tandorf . In 1540 the sons of Jacob , Hieronymus , Wolf and Rochius Löneisen are the owners. They sold the estate to Sebastian Giech von Kötzersdorf in 1547. This was followed by Veit von Giech zum Schlackenhoue , who turned Schlackenhof into a noble estate. Other owners are the Künsberg (1579, 1584), Dr. Pertsch (from 1617), Hans Wolf von Wolfsthal (from 1652), Franz du Quesnoy (from 1699), Dr. med Stephan Kaspar (from 1713), Johann Wolfgang Trötscher (from 1721) and the Stadler from Nuremberg (from 1763).

In 1809 Schlackenhof came to the Baron Franz von Rupprecht . From 1840 the knight and noble Johann Adam von Wilhelm is the owner, followed by Oswald von Wilhelm . In 1852 the estate was "smashed".

Schlackenhof Castle today

The present castle will have been built around 1600. Nothing is known about the presumed predecessor buildings, which could date from the 12th and 13th centuries. The former hammer house is a two-storey plastered renaissance building with a gable roof and a round-arched entrance. The entrance to the property is accentuated by three natural stone pillars crowned with spheres and an arrow grille gate from the late 19th century. Before the land consolidation, the property was surrounded by an oval ditch and a ring wall (60 × 100 m) and the Haidenaab flowed around it. In addition, the castle was separated from the village by the Mühlkanal. The hammer mill and the lock economy were also located here. Once a bridge over the Mühlkanal led directly to the entrance of the castle.

literature

• Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 196–198). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kemnath List of Monuments .
2. ↑ Schlackenhof on Schlossarchiv.de .

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '34.2 "  N , 11 ° 51' 7.3"  E