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The lock green mountain - also castle green mountain mentioned - at old village (circle country) in the Bavarian governmental district middle Franconia stands in a side ravine of the black oh valley. Are on a castle plant out of the Middle Ages into 12. Century back, which probably developed in the place of a former military tower against the Hungary idea of 985. After the castle in 16. Century was destroyed several times and developed again, alternated Patrizierfamilien as owners. The extension of the castle to a lock plant took place in the period from 1717 to 1723 under the last member of the Patrizierfamilie Paumgartner. Here the plant received also its important stucco ceilings.

Starting from 1754 lock green mountain of the Patrizierfamilie Stromer of realm brook, of one of the most important and most important families of Nuremberg belonged. Some members of the family Stromer functioned as a mayor von

Ulman Stromer (1329-1407) wrote the of mine geslecht and abentwr, which is regarded as earliest work of the historiography and the first autobiography of the Middle Ages, and created the first paper mill of Germany. His half brother Peter Stromer invented 1368 the coniferous forest seed, by which it succeeded for the first time in forestry, according to plan and in large extent forest Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871-1952) was a pioneer of the paleontology, made themselves earned around the study of fossil vertebrate animals and worked as one of the most important German dinosaur researchers. The guidance saying of the family Stromer of realm brook reads: "„dum spiro, spero "“- too German: "„I breathe so long, hope I "“.

In the year 2000 the family Stromer of realm brook transferred the property and lock into a non-profit public donation of the civil right, in order to receive and as far as possible for the public make this supraregional meaning monument for future generations accessible.

To neighbourhood of lock green mountain find itself Sophienquelle, which was taken up largest calm baroque source plant north the alps, which will likewise receive from the Stromer cultural property, monument and nature donation must, the ravine devil church in a forest, the 2004 to the FFH list of the European Union as particularly protect worth and a nature didactic exhibition, which will be opened presumably still in the summer 2005.

In addition a baroque tenth barn, afterwards to a Renaissance baroque garden with originally seven terraces to the entire plant, belongs which is operated today as animal cemetery Anubis.

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