Unterschnaittenbach Castle

The lost Unterschnaittenbach Castle (or the so-called Hammerwerk Unterschnaittenbach ) was located in the Upper Palatinate town of Schnaittenbach in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria . In Unterschnaittenbach there was a hammer mill that was operated by the water power of the Ehenbach .

history

On April 23, 1271, in a document in which the Counts of Ortenburg- Murach sold their rights and possessions around the Buchberg (near Kemnath am Buchberg ) to the Wittelsbach Duke Ludwig II , the two parts of Obernsneitenbach and Nidernsneitenbach were also sold existing village of Schnaittenbach mentioned. The Hammergut Unterschnaittenbach was first mentioned in 1398 when Count Palatine Rupprecht II sold it to Hans the Kastner von Amberg . A freedom letter was already issued at that time. The Kastners could exercise lower jurisdiction over the hammer people . As a result, property has always remained a community of its own. It was not until 1938 that the previously independent community of Unterschnaittenbach was dissolved and incorporated into Schnaittenbach.

The Hammer Unterschnaittenbach was owned by the Upper Palatinate family of Kastner, who often call themselves von Unterschnaittenbach, until 1620. The ancestry of the Kastner on Schnaittenbach begins with Hans († 1419), Friedrich (15th century), Leonhard († 1468), Hans d. J. († 1497), Andreas († 1547) and Paul Kastner († 1556). In 1578, Elector Ludwig issued David Kastner with a landassess freedom letter on Hammer Unterschnaittenbach. This is followed by David (* 1541, † April 25, 1590), Tobias († 1605), Paul Sigmund († before 1621) and Hans Wilhelm (* 1561, † 1620), Hans Wilhelm the Elder. J. (* 1603, † 1634) and Michael Kastner († 17th century). After 1622 a Georg von Erkenbrechtshausen appears here, who had taken Anna Eva Kastner as his wife and bought part of the property.

During the Thirty Years' War the Hammergut perished due to fire in 1625. In 1665 nothing was set up except a small mill with two grinding cycles. The Kastners is followed by Claudius Schori (1652–1662), who in 1649 married the widow of Hans Wilhelm Kastner. In 1705 the Kastners are again local owners (Jakob Christoph, † 1700; Christoph Jakob, † before 1707). 1700 is also called Johann Wolfgang Franz Steinhauser, who married a daughter of Jakob Christoph Kastner. In 1724 his son-in-law Friedrich Josef Münsterer appears as a hammer gentleman. 1749 bought Maria Anna von Eberts from the widow of the minster Unterschnaittenbach. In 1759 her daughter Maria Elisbetha Danielin von Froschheim was the mistress of the estate. As a result, ownership changes frequently: in 1767 Johann Georg Siegert bought it, in 1791 Jakob Franz von Hötzendorf, nurse at Floss , and in 1797 Maria Barbara von Sutor, professor widow from Ingolstadt. The latter had the property smashed; half of the share went to the Josepha Freiin von Frönau auf Metzenhof, lieutenant colonel widow, who sold her share again in 1803. After that, the property came into civil hands and jurisdiction was withdrawn.

The hammer was demolished around 1809, today nothing of the castle has survived; houses 3 and 4 were built in its place. In addition, a tavern was built on the castle grounds and the former administrator's house was converted into a dye works.

In the parish church of St. Vitus in Schnaittenbach there are several epitaphs of the Kastner family.

literature

• Heribert Batzl: History of the city of Schnaittenbach. City of Schnaittenbach (ed.), Schnaittenbach 1988, pp. 132-138.
• 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. 147 .
• Georg Leingärtner: Amberg district judge . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria Series I, Issue 24). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 103-104 .
• Hans Nikol: The Kastner von Amberg and the Hammer Unterschnaittenbach. The Upper Palatinate , Volume 64, pp. 289-301.

Web links

• Historical review of the city of Schnaittenbach
• Unterschnaittenbach on Schlossarchiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hammer Unterschnaitenbach. In: THE ART MONUMENTS OF THE KINGDOM OF BAVARIA. State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, 1908, accessed on September 1, 2015 (google book on archive.org). 
2. ^ Entry on Schloss Unterschnaittenbach in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 57 "  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 26.1"  E