Troschelhammer Castle

The listed Troschelhammer Castle (also called Droschelhammer , Droschelmühl or Troschelmühl ) is located in the Troschelhammer district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Pressath in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district of Bavaria (Troschelhammer 1). The castle in Troschelhammer was a hammer lock , the iron hammer being driven by the water of the Haidenaab .

history

The Wild family owned Troschelhammer in the 14th century. On February 14, 1374, Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg the Wolfharen Wild moved to the Judenhof his estate “to Droschlmul, which Landgrave Johannsen he around 600lb. Haller was moved in such a way, where he would not solve the same thing within three years from now if such her grace should fall back on property ”. In 1454, Count Palatine Friedrich awarded the Troschelhammer to the Amberg citizens of Scheuert .

The beginning of the Troschelhammer estate can be seen in 1571. At that time the hammer and mill there came into the possession of Joachim von Zedtwitz through fraternal division of the estate . Previously, Christoph von Zedzwitz and his wife Margarete, née Kreß , owned the Troschelhammer, Pechhof and Dießfurt estates. Joachim von Zedtwitz died when his sons were still minors. Her uncle Christoph Heinrich von Zedtwitz took over the administration as guardian. He had the Mühlstatt rebuilt in Troschelhammer. Due to a new division of the estate, Troschelhammer came to the older Christoph von Zedtwitz in 1598 and, after his death († 1600), to the younger Joachim von Zedtwitz , who explicitly referred to the estate as Troschelmühle. He inherited the Troschelhammer with a lock, a hammer and the mill. Wolf Dietrich von Zedtwitz inherited the Troschelhammer estate from him in 1619 . This is still run as a Landsasse in 1628, although as early as 1627 Hans von Podewils declared that “the dilapidated hammergut Troschelmühl, which had not been viable in the ten years,” had been bought from Wolf Dietrich von Zedtwitz . Hans von Podewils was not allowed to stay in the country because of his Calvinist beliefs. The Waldeck district judge's office was therefore instructed in 1629 to sell the property and arrest the owner should he come into the country. He was later given permission to spend a month on his "thoroughly spoiled" estate. He was followed by his son Erdmann First von Podewils as the owner of the Dießfurt, Pechhof and Troschelmühle estates. He too was not allowed to stay in the country. In 1649 he sold his estate to Johann Georg Ernst von Reiß in order to pay off the inherited debts. The latter also had to convert to the Catholic faith and only after this was confirmed in 1653, the purchase contract was ratified and the lord of the manor, as a compatriot, was made responsible. According to a report from 1666, the Troschelhammer is practicable, "but is (but) mostly (only) processed more gently".

In 1672 Johann Georg Ernst von Reiss left his property to his son Franz Heinrich von Reiss . From this it passed to the youngest son Georg Ernst von Reiss and then to the older brother Hans Kaspar . In 1711 the property had to be auctioned in order to satisfy the remaining siblings' inheritance claims. The estate was acquired by Johann Wilhelm von Eberts , captain of the Palatinate electorate. He was the husband of the daughter of Reiss, Maria Anna von Eberts , who is referred to as a widow as early as 1722. However, she did not sell the estate to her son Maximilian Philipp Adolph von Eberts until 1741 . As his successor in ownership, Johann Adam von Gravenreuth was assigned to the Troschelhammer estate in 1749 . After his death († 1770), a contingent sale, which was closed in 1769, was implemented with Leonhard Anton von Frank and he was employed here as a landlord in 1771. After his death († 1785) he left the estate to his still underage son Karl . Leonhard von Frank on Gmünd initially took over the guardianship of the latter , Karl von Frank remained the lord of the Troschelhammer until 1831 after reaching the age of majority.

In 1863, the landowner Johann Fritsch applied for a building and a license to set up a glass bead factory. In 1892/93 Sigmund S. Arnstein is mentioned here as a mirror glass manufacturer from Fürth . 1922 Construction of two engines. 1941 is on the upper foremen of fa. Arnstein called Johann Walberer , on the Troschelhammer (second work) Johann Pöllmann .

Troschelhammer Castle today

The former hammer lock is a two-storey mansard hipped roof building with a plaster structure. There is a bay window with an ornamental gable above the entrance. The core of the house dates back to around 1600, in the late 18th century a baroque redesign took place . The property also has a castle economy with a stable, a barn and a coach house . This is a long wing with single buildings joined together with gable roofs , dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The castle is privately owned and is not open to the public.

literature

• Heribert Sturm: Kemnath. Landrichteramt Waldeck-Kemnath with sub-office Pressath (p. 165 ff). (= 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. ↑ Pressath List of Monuments
2. ↑ Sturm, 1975, p. 165.
3. ^ Johannes Ibel: The mirror glass grinding and polishing in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab including the city of Weiden: A contribution to the industrial and economic history of the northern Upper Palatinate. eurotrans-Verl., Weiden in der Oberpfalz 1999, p. 98.

Web links

• Aerial view of Dießfurt

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 44.2 "  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 59.7"  E