Stockenroth

Stockenroth Sparneck market Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 38 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 9 ″ E
Height :	550 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	110 (2007)
Postal code :	95234
Area code :	09251

Stockenroth is a district of the Sparneck market in the Hof district in Bavaria .

geography

The village lies at the foot of the Waldstein on the Münchberg plateau between the Fichtelgebirge and the Franconian Forest . The local connection road Münchberg - Sparneck leads through the village . The highest point is the Schachtel- or Schlegelsberg (591 m) in the southwest of the village, the lowest point is the course of the Saale (512 m). The village has 90 inhabitants together with the Sparneck district of Germersreuth. The place was designed as a small, somewhat primeval forest hoof village along the Föhrenbach, adapting to the landscape . After a short run, this flows into the Saxon Saale at the Saalmühle . The four original courtyards all face with their fronts in the direction of Anger , an unusual orientation, as the houses in the region were mostly facing south at that time.

Stockenroth 11, one of the original courtyards

history

Stockenroth-Germersreuth was probably founded at the beginning of the 12th century by the Walpots . Originally only the village of Germersreuth existed. When it was founded, this presumably consisted of only four entire courtyards and a mansion including a tower house as a retreat for residents in the event of violent conflicts. Soon after the establishment, power passed to the von Sparneck family . At the beginning of the 15th century, the village, along with other places along the Waldstein, came under the Bohemian fiefdom . The Bohemian Crown initially enfeoffed the Lords of Sparneck and, after their decline, the councilor Christoph Haller von Hallerstein , who sold the goods to the Hohenzollern in Kulmbach on March 16, 1563 . Belonging to the Bohemian Crown formally existed until 1792, when the entire Principality of Bayreuth fell through sale to Prussia .

Ecclesiastically, the village belonged to the large parish of the Münchberg parish, which was initially dependent on the bishopric of Bamberg and was under the archdeacon of Kronach. After the Reformation the parish came to the superintendent of Hof in 1558 , until Münchberg itself became the seat of one in 1660. After the foundation of the parish in Sparneck by Christoph Haller von Hallerstein in 1562, the residents south of the Föhrenbach were assigned to it, the residents of the northern part stayed with Münchberg. Because of this division, the current division of the village into Stockenroth (south of the old stream) and Germersreuth (north of the old stream) probably developed.

The village of Stockenroth (old spelling: "Stockenrode, Stockerodt, Stockaroth") was not created until the beginning of the 18th century and was originally limited to the area of the castle of the same name, which was built around 1400, and its farm areas. In Castle Stockenroth of the 16th century, the seat was from the middle to the 18th century one (top) Office. The margraves had set up this there to manage their new possessions in front of the Waldstein. In 1680, Margrave Christian Ernst united the offices of Münchberg, Stockenroth and Hallerstein in the Oberamt Münchberg-Stockenroth . In the 17th century Stockenroth developed into a center of horse breeding and played an important role in the introduction of the potato . In 1731 the then bailiff Johann Georg Hartung moved his residence to Sparneck. The Stockenrother Castle fell victim to the pickaxe in 1762. The Oberamt Münchberg-Stockenroth-Hallerstein was dissolved in 1779 and added to the Provincial Governor of Hof.

In 1810 Napoleon sold the Principality of Bayreuth to Bavaria. As a result, Stockenroth-Germersreuth became part of the kingdom and subsequently the Free State of Bavaria. According to family tradition, this sale to Bavaria, which was still underdeveloped at the time, was viewed by some residents of the village as a step backwards and even as treason. On the other hand, the administrative reforms of 1812 and 1818 first brought a certain degree of independence to the newly founded rural community. Stockenroth and Germersreuth were combined with the neighboring settlements of Reinersreuth , Brandenstumpf, Einöden, Grohenbühl, Immerseiben, Immershof, Rohrmühle, Saalmühle and Ziegelhütte to form what later became the Sparneck market.

The professional organization and social structure of the Germersreuther and Stockenrother populations were and are not uniform. The local aristocratic family and their servants lived there alongside the farmers from an early age. From 1563 to 1758 the margrave officials lived in the castle and the land and court servants in the Fronfeste. Later day laborers settled in the abandoned castle estates. By the middle of the 17th century at the latest there was a brickworks and an inn . There is also evidence of a forge in the 19th century. Textile processing was also of great importance at that time . In the family directory of 1856 there are 13 farmers and 16 master weavers. This tradition has worked well into modern times. At the end of the 20th century there was a small weaving mill in Stockenroth.

There is currently a carpenter's shop and a wood shop in the village. 17.78% of the village population have their main occupation in agriculture, more than 50% work in trade and industry on site and in the surrounding areas.

Culture

The ASV Stockenroth has 300 members. The main sports are soccer, cross-country skiing and athletics. The name Allgemeine Sport- und Kulturverein (ASV) comes from the fact that the workers' sports club and the civil sports club merged after the Second World War.

The Stockenroth Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded in 1875. In 2016 it had 30 active members.

Due to the fact that the region was part of the Brandenburg-Kulmbach margraviate during the Reformation, the inhabitants are predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran. The members of the parish from Germersreuth belong to Münchberg, those from Stockenroth to Sparneck.

Web links

The legend of the shepherd von Stockenroth