Noble seat Hohenkemnath

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Hohenkemnath Castle (2015)

The noble seat Hohenkemnath , also called Hohenkemnath Castle , is located in Hohenkemnath , today a district of the Upper Palatinate community Ursensollen in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria .

Coat of arms of the Kemnather in the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt von Hohenkemnath

history

The place Hohenkemnath is connected with the Kemnath family. In 1267 a Stephan von Kemnath is named in Lutzmannstein, Hohenkemnath and Rosenberg. The Kemnather provided a number of higher officials, for example Heinrich Kemnather was a district judge in Sulzbach at the end of the 14th century , and Philipp Kemnather was Burghuter zu Obersdorf . The last of the Kemnathers zu Hohenkemnath was a Wolf Philipp Kemnath according to the Landsassen registries in 1530, but between 1570 and 1589 another Philipp von Kemnath zu Zant is named, who is said to have also sat in Hohenkemnath. The Kemnaths can be found here until 1652, i.e. until after the end of the Thirty Years' War . Two of the family's tombstones can be found in the tower of the Hohenkemnath parish church Maria Himmelfahrt .

After the Kemnathers, the country estate came to the Lords of Hallerstein from 1652 to 1735 . There are also two epitaphs of these in the Hohemkemnather parish church. Hans Andreas Haller von Hallerstein acquired the estate from the Gant . The last of this family in Hohenkemnath was Johann Jakob Haller von Hallerstein, followed in 1735 by his widow Sibilla von Hauzenberger. In 1752 Hohenkemnath inherited the daughters of Wilhelm von Loefens, Theresia Floriana and Sibilla, who in 1760 sold the Hofmark to the chancellor Christian Florian von Frank. From 1767, his son Joseph Max Freiherr von Frank, Hofkammerrat and treasurer, owned the Hofmark. He was followed by his son Wilhelm Freiherr vom Frank auf Hohenkemnath and Zant. After his death († 1846) his widow married the lieutenant Konstatin Freiherrn von Podewils, who became a co-owner. In 1808, Hohenkemnath's freedom of the local people was repealed by the Bavarian state. As a result, the estates belonging to the country estate were gradually sold and the owners also changed very frequently; the last owner of the castle building was a Konrad Edenharder († August 25, 1980).

Construction

The castle is a two-storey solid building with a hipped roof and a plaster structure that was built around 1600. The building was expanded in the 18th century. The windows on the ground floor are secured with strong bars. The building has been in bad shape for a long time and is in urgent need of renovation.

literature

  • Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
  • Josef Schmaußer: Hohenkemnath. Historical, church and school outline. In: Amberg information , January 1991, pp. 12-31.

Web links

Commons : Hohenkemnath Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Leingärtner (editor): Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 24: Landrichteramt Amberg. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1971, p. 93.
  2. ^ Georg Leingärtner : Amberg I - Amberg district judge. Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 24). Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 93 f ., above ( [1] [accessed on May 12, 2020]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 48.7 "  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 49.6"  E