  The transition metal based oxide YBaCo3FeO7 is structurally related to the
mineral Swedenborgite SbNaBe4O7, a polar non-centrosymmetric crystal system.
The magnetic Co3Fe sublattice consists of a tetrahedral network containing
kagome-like layers with trigonal interlayer sites. This geometry causes
frustration effects for magnetic ordering, which were investigated by
magnetization measurements, M\"ossbauer spectroscopy, polarized neutron
diffraction, and neutron spectroscopy. Magnetization measurement and neutron
diffraction do not show long range ordering even at low temperature (1 K)
although a strong antiferromagnetic coupling (~2000 K) is deduced from the
magnetic susceptibility. Below 590 K, we observe two features, a spontaneous
weak anisotropic magnetization hysteresis along the polar crystallographic axis
and a hyperfine field on the Fe kagome sites, whereas the Fe spins on the
interlayer sites remain idle. Below ~50 K, the onset of a hyperfine field shows
the development of moments static on the M\"ossbauer time scale also for the Fe
interlayer sites. Simultaneously, an increase of spin correlations is found by
polarized neutron diffraction. The relaxation part of the dynamic response has
been further investigated by high-resolution neutron spectroscopy, which
reveals that the spin correlations start to freeze in below ~50 K. Monte Carlo
simulations show that the neutron scattering results at lower temperatures are
compatible with a recent proposal that the particular geometric frustration in
the Swedenborgite structure promotes quasi one dimensional partial order.
