Rear Manor Diepoltsdorf

The Loefen Manor consists of two houses, the so-called rear and front manor houses, on a castle site secured by a moat. Its origin presumably dates back to the 13th century and is likely to be found in a "dwelling" of ministeriales of the Lords of Osternohe. This is suggested by a document in which Hartmann the Elder of Diepoltsdorf from the Neidunge family vouched for his brother Neidung of Winterstein on December 26, 1326, when the latter sold goods to the Teutonic Order. Around 1330, Hartmann and his brother were also vassals of the Schenken von Reicheneck. Presumably, Folkolt von "Dieplstorff", who was enfeoffed with the tithe at Hormersdorf by King Ruprecht I in 1401, also belonged to this family.

Already in 1366, the Groland family is said to have owned land in Diepoltsdorf. In 1398, Jakob and Lorenz Groland were enfeoffed with the dwelling in Diepoltsdorf by the burgrave. They established a family ownership that continues to this day. Linhard Groland the Elder of Diepoltsdorf also acquired the neighboring manor Utzmannsbach in 1450. From 1507 to 1521, Linhard Groland the Younger, at times one of the Nuremberg mayors and a friend of the humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, held the seat. As a Nuremberg owner, he was also noted in 1504 during the reconnaissance of the landscape, ordered by the Nuremberg Council before the outbreak of the Landshut War of Succession.

Linhard the Younger was followed by his sons Christoph and the younger Sebastian Groland. In May 1553 – during the Second Margrave War – the brothers had to endure the burning down of the estate. The so-called rear house subsequently underwent only a provisional reconstruction, in which apparently only the lower part was reused, while the upper floors, presumably made of half-timbering, were abandoned. Ernst Waldstromer reported in 1632 that the rear house was allegedly the older seat. Already before his time, the estate had been divided by the daughters of Sebastian Groland, with the rear house falling to Ursula, née Groland, and her husband Hans Waldstromer.

During the Thirty Years' War, especially in 1648, both manor houses suffered damage again. During a looting, the furnishings were "hacked to pieces" and Ernst Waldstromer was critically injured. The castle wall surrounding both manor houses is also said to have collapsed during this time and not been restored. After Waldstromer's death in 1655, his relative and owner of the front manor house, Christoph Gottfried Gugel, was enfeoffed on behalf of Waldstromer's daughters. In 1660, the heiresses then ceded the property to the Gugel family, so that since then both manor houses were reunited in one hand.

Since its restoration in the 16th century, the "rear dwelling" remained a two-story building, which, according to an 1816 description, contained only two small, at that time unheated rooms, as well as grain attics. Its current appearance is said to be due to an extensive renovation in the years 1963/64.