Kapfing (Vilsheim)
Kapfing is a village in the municipality of Vilsheim in the Landshut district .
In the center of the place north of Vilsheim is the stately Kapfing Castle. A Werinher de chapfingen is mentioned for the first time in the last quarter of the 11th century, and the first reliable news about the castle comes from the 13th century. Kapfing developed as a typical settlement around the castle.
Kapfing Castle
Kapfing Castle consists of a rectangular complex, the park and the St. Josef Castle Chapel.
From 1415 to 1643 it was owned by the later Freiherr von Eckher, until 1780 it was owned by the Freiherr von Goder. In 1702 Graf Hieronymus von Spreti came to the court of Elector Max Emanuel as a page , and through his third marriage to Antonia Freiin von Goder in 1754, Kapfing Castle became the ancestral seat of the Counts von Spreti from 1780 onwards . With the death of Wolfram Graf von Spreti in 2004, who had previously gone into debt, the castle and land fell to the Bavarian state. In 2007, Nikolaus Weber-Henschel acquired the property.
At the end of the 19th century, Graf von Spreti made Kapfing his main residence. In 1910 and 1911, the three-storey building covered by a hipped roof received two round corner towers as part of an extension to the west. In 1918 King Ludwig III returned here . briefly on his escape from Munich.
Location Kapfing
The village of Kapfing, which belonged to the municipality of Vilsheim, had 28 other landowners, mainly farmers, in addition to the counts' land. Of the 41 families and 243 residents, 32 families with 147 members worked exclusively in agriculture, five families with 17 people also ran a trade. Kapfing had 100 inhabitants in 1860, 64 in 1970 and around 100 at the beginning of the 21st century. In the 2005 district decision of the Our Village Has a Future competition, Kapfing won the gold medal in the category of up to 600 inhabitants.
Personalities
- Karl Graf von Spreti (born May 21, 1907 at Kapfing Castle near Vilsheim, † April 5, 1970 in San Pedro / Guatemala), architect, politician (CSU), member of the Bundestag and ambassador
- Franz Graf von Spreti (born April 17, 1914 at Kapfing Castle near Vilsheim; † May 11, 1990 ibid), politician (CSU), mayor of Vilsheim, district administrator of the Landshut district and district council president of Lower Bavaria
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Count's Wrong Numbers Focus Magazin, No. 53 (2004)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ' N , 12 ° 6' E