Klosterburg Kastl

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Klosterburg Kastl
The monastery castle Kastl, which served the Jesuits as a residence from 1636 to 1773.

The monastery castle Kastl, which served the Jesuits as a residence from 1636 to 1773.

Creation time : Carolingian period
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Partly preserved
Place: Kastl
Geographical location 49 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E
Kastl Monastery Castle (Bavaria)
Klosterburg Kastl

The Klosterburg Kastl obtained is too much of hilltop castle and later Kastl Abbey on an elongated dolomite hill above the Lauterach valley high above Kastl in the Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria .

The castle complex was probably founded in Carolingian times. In 954, Margrave Luitpold of Austria is said to have received Kastl Castle as a fief. In the same year Luitpold owned the entire Heubischgau with Kastl, Habsberg , Illschwang and Sulzbach . In 1098 the castle had three owners: Count Berengar von Sulzbach , Friedrich I von Habsberg-Kastl with his son Count Otto von Habsberg-Kastl and Luitgard von Zähringen , wife of Margrave Diepold II von Vohburg . Between 1098 and 1102 the owners agreed to convert the castle into a Benedictine monastery. On May 12, 1102, Pope Paschal II confirmed the foundation of the monastery.

A new gate tower was built in the 14th century . In 1556 the dilapidated monastery ended as a Benedictine abbey. Until 1803 the complex was the seat of the Jesuit residence Kastl . From 1958 to 2007 it was used as the "Hungarian Gymnasium".

From the original castle, only the remains of the walls built in the buildings and in the Bering remained.

literature

Engraving of the monastery from the "Churbaierischen Atlas" by Anton Wilhelm Ertl, 1687

Georg Dehio : Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate, manual of German art monuments. Jolanda Drexler, Achim Hubel (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991. Amberg and the land an Naab and Vils, guide to archaeological monuments in Germany 44. Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2004. Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district. 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, p. 124f.
  2. ^ Entry on Kastl, Klosterburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".