New Manor Diepoltsdorf

With the so-called "New Dwelling", the third manor house in Diepoltsdorf was built in 1570 under Katharina Groland, widow of Christoph Groland, who died in 1561. Apparently, an inheritance agreement with her brother-in-law Sebastian Groland before 1569 had led to the division of properties and the establishment of a widow's residence.

In 1599, her son-in-law Alexander Stockhamer, Nuremberg city judge since 1593, inherited the manor house. The Stockhamer-Groland alliance coat of arms can still be seen on the front gable. With the marriage of Maria Magdalena Stockhamer, the seat passed to the Nuremberg patrician Georg Christoph Pömer in 1689. His descendant Georg Wilhelm Pömer ran into financial difficulties in the 1750s and sold the property in 1760 for 9,000 guilders to Herr von Velhorn [cf. Schnaittach], much to the chagrin of the Nuremberg Council. Already in 1766, the seat was sold again for now 13,000 guilders to a Nuremberg citizen, the merchant Johann Stephan Zeltner. Zeltner had already died in the early 19th century, as the Schnaittach district court noted in 1806 that there was a "small castle" in Diepoltsdorf that "belongs to a widow of Zeltner from Nuremberg" and was probably even younger, as it could not be proven in any of the old land registers.

In 1809, the seat passed through the marriage of Hedwig Zeltner to Johann Carl Friedrich Christoph von Harsdorf to an old Nuremberg family, who transferred it to the Freiherrlich von Harsdorfschen Family Foundation in 1878.

The Harsdorf manor house is located northeast of the von Loefen seat and east of Naifer Strasse. The two-story gabled roof building has plastered facades. The interior, accessed by a spiral staircase, houses a number of high-quality stucco ceilings. The hall in the southeast of the upper floor was paneled with a balustrade wainscoting with wainscoting cabinets built into the corners. On the first attic floor there is a room with plank walls, a framed stucco ceiling and a tiled stove from the second half of the 18th century.

During a renovation in 1987/88, among other things, the upper floor half-timbering on the east side was exposed, and the renewed gabled roof received hipped gables.