LOCHNER OF NANKENDORF
~1400 – ~1700
Only a few members of this independent lineage can be identified. They belong to the “red branches” and are more closely related to the Lochner of Drossenfeld at the beginning of the 15th century (the ancestors of the Lochner of Palitz in Bohemia and in Nuremberg), because Herman II Lochner of Drossenfeld has already owned property in Nankendorf in 1399 and his sons are called Eberhard and Albrecht (see: 03 LVP HISTORY). John II Lochner of Nankendorf around 1400, who is first mentioned of this line, might be a cousin of Herman III Lochner of Drossenfeld. Thomas Lochner of Nankendorf has the entire tithe on the Appenberg[1] in 1405. Estimated within 150 years, the Nankendorf Lochners almost completely lose their allodials:
In 1455 they will give up three of their four free properties to the Bishop of Bamberg[2] as to receive them back as fiefs from this feudal lord – with the assurance of tax exemption – a first step towards dependence through impoverishment. After all, they held a single croft as freemen for another 100 years, however, with the note in the Bamberg registry books of 1555 “Contz Lochner is a free man”![3]
That describes Conrad IX Lochner of Nankendorf – in contrast, Anna Lochner, as a subject of the knightly family of Ruessenbach, is probably found on a once free farm having belonged to the Lochner of Nankendorf line. The Ruessenbachs (village near the town of Ebermannstadt) are owners of fiefs of the Bamberg Bishops in Nankendorf from 1399 until their extinction in 1573 – before they have been vassals of the Higher Nobles of Schluesselberg like the Lochners of Ebermannstadt for Neideck tithe office. In 1399, the Lochner line of Nankendorf even still has had ½ the tithe in Nankendorf “at the Smyrbach” (a creek named Schmierbach)[4].
At the end of the 17th century they probably merge into peasantry or die out as a result of the Thirty Years‘ War, since in the next records of their feudal lord in 1692[5] nothing is remained of these Lochner’s freehold allodial.
L I T E R A T U R E
Dorothea Fastnacht:
„Ebermannstadt – ehemaliger Landkreis Ebermannstadt – Band 4“,
Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, München, 2000
C O A T-O F-A R M S
Lochner of Nankendorf – LVD – „red branches“
see below:
coat-of-arms of the Barons Lochner of Huettenbach,
created between 1910 and 1920 by Adolf Maria Hildebrandt
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