Kager Castle

Kager on the map of Philipp Apian from 1568

Residential house No. 20 in Kager with the remains of the walls of the former Hofmark building

Cellar vault

Moro farm and possible remains of the wall

The almost completely defunct Kager Castle is located in the village of Kager in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Pemfling in the Cham district of Bavaria . The property was at the highest point of a 20 m high spur foothills that sloped significantly on three sides at around 407 m above sea level. NN.

history

The name Kager is derived from kag (= pile structure, living fence). It was part of the Pösinger Au, which was part of the furnishings of the chapel in the Roding royal court . King Heinrich II gave this to the monastery of the Old Chapel around 1002, which he in turn donated to the Bamberg diocese .

In 1364 Hans the Sattelpoger gave the Reichenbach monastery to settle a debt dy gut ze Kager ; at that time there seems to be no castle in Kager. In 1413, Ruprecht Donnersteiner received all of their possessions in a dispute over the estate of the Pemflinger family, with the exception of the village belonging to Kager and everything including the fief of the noble bystumb zu Babenperg . I.e. Kager can be regarded as a descendant of the property of the Pemflinger , who had received this property as a fief from the diocese of Bamberg . The Eyttenharter has been certified as the owner since 1454 , Ruprecht Eyttenharter calls himself the Kager , his brother Conrad after Pemfling. Under the Eyttenharter, according to the land table of 1488 , Kager becomes a court marque ; The castle must have been built by this time at the latest. In 1518 Mertein Zigler Kager held the fiefdom; he also owned one of the castle hats at Wetterfeld as a loan.

The Murach family is attested in the country table from 1539 . Jörg von Murach also got other parts of the Pemflinger legacy into his hands. From 1550 he was succeeded by Endress Georg von Murach. In 1584 his stepson Hans Christian Fuchs the Younger received Kager based on the will of his stepfather Endres Georg von Murach . The property also included Pemfling, Darstein, Döfering, Grafenkirchen, Löwendorf, Engelsdorf, Rhan, Balbersdorf and Rackelsdorf. It was not until 1610 that Kager was sold to Colonel Georg Wolf Kolb von Raindorf alone. Under him or under his son Hans Jakob , the castle was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War and then rebuilt more modestly.

The Schwenck family lived here in the second half of the 17th century . In the 18th century they were followed by wood turning . In 1820, the Ministry of the Interior gave Andreas von Moro (Moreau) permission to set up a second class patrimonial court . In 1831 the state acquired the heavily indebted Dominicals of Kager and sold 36 parts of the castle's economy. Descendants of Moros still live in Kager today.

Kager Castle then and now

According to the map of Philipp Apian from 1568, Kager ( Auff der Kager ) was a handsome two-storey castle complex . The Palas is integral with a stepped gable drawn, going from him walls of which each end in a tower; one of these towers is covered with a pointed roof, the other - perhaps the entrance tower - is blunt at the top, but perhaps has battlements .

The original castle is likely to have been built in the second half of the 15th century as a residential castle and court yard for the Eyttenhart family . The castle was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and the fortifications abandoned and only the main building rebuilt using older parts. In 1831 only three buildings lined up in a row can be seen in a free space. From the old Hofmark buildings, sparse remains of the wall can be seen on house no. In addition, the late medieval barrel-vaulted cellars underneath have been preserved. The building has been modernized. Other remains of the wall and a vault were cut in during construction work in the neighborhood in the 1960s. Traces of the former fortifications can be seen as the edge of the terrace.

literature

• Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Part II catalog (=  work on the archeology of southern Germany . Volume 16 ). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2001, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 .
• Max Piendl: The Cham district court . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Part Altbayern Heft 8). Michael Lassleben, Munich 1955, p. 40 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Schießl: History and school history of Pemfling. Admission thesis in the subject of folklore at the University of Regensburg, 1988, p. 23.

Web links

Commons : Burg Kager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 34.4 "  N , 12 ° 35 ′ 59.1"  E