Smrčina Castle

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Redrawing of the Sorg Castle in 1912
Derelict Smrčina Farm (2009)

The Smrčina Castle (German Castle Sorg ) was located on the territory of the municipality Podhradí in Okres Cheb in the Czech Republic . It was built in 1690 for Karl Joseph von Zedtwitz and was the seat of the Sorger part of the Asch rule. In 1963 it was demolished.

geography

The castle with a manor, some residential buildings and the Sorgteich was three kilometers north of Aš on the upper reaches of the Sorgbach in the Ašská vrchovina . The road from Aš to Hranice runs through Smrčina . To the north rises the Studánecký vrch ( Hungersberg , 697 m nm), in the southeast of the Háj ( Hainberg , 758 m nm), to the west of the Loupežník ( Raubhäuserberg , 702 m nm) and in the northwest of the U Lomu ( Finkenberg , 707 m nm). Half a kilometer to the northwest is the Podhradí stop on the Aš – Adorf railway line .

Surrounding places are Smrčina , Novomeští and Studánka in the north, Podhradí in the northeast, Gürth in the east, Marak in the southeast, Větrov in the south, Krásná and Černý Luh in the southwest and Kamenná in the west.

history

The Sorga settlement was probably founded in the 13th century. The Sorga Vorwerk was first mentioned in a document in 1288; There is also the note that it used to belong to Vogt Heinrich von Plauen - probably from 1281 as part of the Egerland as a pledge . In 1290, the German King Rudolf I enfeoffed the regional judge Otto von Machwitz with the Sorg and Elfhausen estate . In the 14th century, the knights of Neipperg Sorg acquired and attached the estate to Neuberg Castle . In 1394, after the death of Konrad von Neuberg, ownership of this line of the Neippergers, who last called themselves "von Neuberg", passed to the Lords of Zedtwitz as heir . After the death of Hans Georg von Zedtwitz in 1667, a quarter of Zedtwitz's possessions fell to his underage sons Wolf Ernst, Karl Joseph and Hans Christoph. In 1690 they decided to divide the estate, with Karl Joseph taking over the Sorg estate, Wolf Ernst the Neuberg estate and Johann Christoph von Zedtwitz the Schönbach estate by drawing lots . Karl Joseph von Zedtwitz had the Sorg Castle built between 1689 and 1692. The three shares received their own jurisdiction, but were still administered jointly as Herrschaft Neuberg, later as Herrschaft Asch . The Meierhof also had a small brewery, in which beer was produced according to the English brewing method, a distillery and a vinegar brewery. The Sorgmühle was in the valley of the Elfhausen brook. The residents of the settlement lived from agriculture and sheep breeding.

In 1845, the Sorger share belonged to Karl Ludwig von Zedtwitz as one of the five shares of the Asch rulership after further division. The castle and the hamlet of Sorg with "some houses" as well as the single-layer Sorgmühle were listed as accessories to the community of Neuberg . The Sorg forest area cultivated a forest area of ​​288 yoke 1392 square fathoms. Parish places were Asch and Niklasberg, in Neuberg there was a Protestant branch church "Zum Guten Hirten" . Sorg remained subordinate to the Asch rulership until the middle of the 19th century .

After the abolition of patrimonial, from 1849 , Sorg formed a district of the municipality of Neuberg in the judicial district of Asch . From 1868 the settlement became part of the newly formed Asch district . In 1885, traffic on the Asch-Roßbach local railway began , and the Neuberg stop was built in the open field between Steinpöhl , Sorg and Elfhausen at the foot of the Finkenberg .

In 1906, the indebted Karl Ludwig von Zedtwitz sold the Sorg and Neuhaus estate to the Ascher textile manufacturer Wilhelm Fischer, who owned Christian Fischer's Sons (CEFISA). The Fischer family rebuilt the castle and was able to significantly increase the property in the following period. In 1930 there were around 50 people living in Sorg.

After the Munich Agreement , Sorg was added to the German district of Asch in 1938. In 1939, the Sorg estate comprised an agricultural area of ​​135 hectares and 996 hectares of forest, as well as 23 fish ponds, the "Gasthaus Sorg", a chicken farm and a strawberry plantation. The drinking water supply to the property was provided by Steinpöhl via a one kilometer long water pipe. After the end of the Second World War, Sorg returned to Czechoslovakia. The German population was expelled in 1946 . The Sorg estate was nationalized. In 1948 the evacuated places Elfhausen and Sorg were merged under the name Smrčina ; together with Neuberk they became part of the Kopaniny municipality . Since 1961 Smrčina belongs to the Okres Cheb . The Smrčina Castle was demolished in 1963. The farm buildings were preserved. Between 1976 and 1990 Smrčina belonged to the town of Aš, since then the settlement has been part of the Podhradí municipality again. Today Smrčina consists of agricultural facilities, the dilapidated farm, the ruins of the inn and the mighty trees of the former castle park.

Building

In the Middle Ages there was a fortress in Sorg. Between 1689 and 1692, Karl Joseph von Zedtwitz had a castle built in place of the ruined fortress. The largely wooden building served the von Zedtwitz family as a summer residence and was surrounded by a walled garden.

The Ascher textile entrepreneur Wilhelm Fischer had the castle converted into a representative family seat by 1911.

During the Second World War, the Fischer family left the castle to an SS unit as a hospital. After the end of the war, the Fischer family was expropriated and expelled. The castle was then looted. After the creation of the Smrčina State Estate, the chateau initially served as the administrative headquarters and warehouse of the estate, as well as a canteen for employees. The progressive deterioration caused the state property not to be repaired, but to abandon the castle. After that, conservationists undertook emergency repairs on the unused building, which was also plundered further. The slow and irregular security work could not stop the complete deterioration of the castle. In 1963 the endangered Smrčina Castle was demolished. Its foundation walls, which are used as a silage pit, have been preserved.

Web links

Commons : Smrčina Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Distribution of inheritance to the von Zedtwitz lords from 1690
  2. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 15 - Elbogen Circle , 1847, p. 372

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 57.2 ″  E