Castle crest

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Castle crest
Alternative name (s): Chambe Castle
Creation time : after 1077
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: gone, earthwork
Standing position : Edelfrei
Place: Vorderschloss or Söldenau

The castle crest earlier in the Middle Ages Chambe called, is a Outbound Höhenburg (needle seat) in the town of Ortenburg. It is the former headquarters of the noble free von Kamm , who later became the Counts of Hals . The castle complex was either on a hill above the village of Kamm near Ortenburg or in nearby Söldenau .

history

The noble free von Chambe once came with Ulrich von Passau from the Nordgau to Eastern Bavaria during the investiture dispute . Often they appeared as his subordinate. They settled in the Wolfach Valley and built the Kamm Castle. At the beginning of the 12th century they are named for the first time after the castle complex.

The reason on which the complex was built was based on high estates from Passau. Therefore, after the childless death of Walchun von Chambe in 1222 , the Passau bishopric also had ownership claims to Kamm. However, it seems as if the bishopric was unable to enforce these claims and instead the inheritance went to Walchun's nephew, the Counts of Hals . In 1248 Burkhard von Weiher, the guardian of Count von Hals, who was not yet of legal age, was found at the castle.

In 1291, Count Albert von Hals renounced Kamm Castle and its accessories and the possessions around Kamm, St. Philipp (today's Söldenau ), Holzkirchen and Isarhofen in favor of his granddaughter Kunigunde, the wife of Rapotos IV von Ortenburg . After this donation, the complex seems to have lost its importance. The reason for this may have been the two castle complexes already inhabited by the Counts of Ortenburg in today's districts of Vorderschloss and Hinterschloss.

Location question

For a long time it was assumed that Kamm Castle would be identical to Neu-Ortenburg Castle due to its proximity to Alt-Ortenburg Castle , the ancestral castle of the Counts of Ortenburg . In March 2011, the Ortenburg Castle Area Promotion Group initiated a 3D measurement of the former Ortenburg Castle complex and the Kamm area. No evidence of a possible location of a castle complex was found above the Kamm district. However, near the former count's shooting range of Alt-Ortenburg Castle, at the top of the hill tongue, larger soil structures were found. This could be the actual location of the castle. However, this could also be a terraced former baroque garden. Archaeological excavations would have to be carried out to clarify this location. Another possibility for a location would be if Burg Kamm were to be a Niederungsburg. Due to the temporal appearance of Söldenau Castle, Kamm Castle could also be a predecessor of the former moated castle on the Wolfach .

literature

  • Elmar Grimbs: Laser scan images of the front lock - rear lock - comb area. In: Ortenburg - Reichsgrafschaft and 450 years of Reformation (1563–2013), Ortenburg 2013 (p. 428f).
  • Stefan Wild: The noble free from Chambe and the castle Kamm. In: Ortenburg - Reichsgrafschaft and 450 years of Reformation (1563–2013), Ortenburg 2013 (pp. 450–454).
  • Richard Loibl : The rulership of the Counts of Vornbach and their successors , ( Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Altbayern Series II, Book 5), Munich 1997.
  • Ludwig Veit : Passau. Das Hochstift , (Historical Atlas of Bavaria - Altbayern Series I, Issue 35), Munich 1978.
  • Franziska Jungmann-Stadler: District Vilshofen , (Historical Atlas of Bavaria - Old Bavaria Series I, Issue 29), Munich 1972.
  • Renate Blickle: Landgericht Griesbach , (Historical Atlas of Bavaria - Altbayern Series I, Issue 19), Munich 1970.
  • Gertrud Diepolder: Upper and Lower Bavarian aristocratic rule in the Wittelsbach territorial state of the 13th - 15th century. Approaches to the comparison of the historical structure of Upper and Lower Bavaria. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. Volume 25, Munich 1962 (pp. 33-70), ISSN  0044-2364 .
  • Luitpold Brunner: The Counts of Hals , Augsburg 1857.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MB 29b, 221 f.
  2. ↑ RB IV, 480