Gangkofen Castle

Gangkofen market after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The Gangkofen Castle was the Hofmarksitz the Lower Bavarian community Gangkofen . Remains of the Hofmark building can still be found in the house on Marktplatz 32.

history

On November 1, 1011 (or 1012), the later Emperor Heinrich II generously presented the Bamberg diocese he founded with his chamber property in the Rottau and Isengau regions. This donation also mentions the place Gegen-inc-houun in Isengau and in the county of Gerold ; this is regarded as the medieval name for Gangkofen (later also Gängkoven or Gängkhofen ), but this name is sometimes equated with Geigenkofen (now part of the Reisbach community ).

Gangkofen was attributable to the Counts of Leonberg . These are mentioned here in 1280 and 1303. The knights of Hochholding, Morolding, Panzing and Schernegg were part of the Gangkofen dominion . The Hochholdinger are ministerials of the Leonberger. Since Count Bernger III. von Leonberg also exercised bailiwick rights over the parish churches of Ober- and Unterdietfurt . For a short time the Counts of Dornberg are also resident in Gangkofen , possibly because they were bailiffs of the Bishop of Würzburg from an early age . The Leonberg rule of Gangkofen then came to the Counts of Hals by inheritance in 1309 . The Wittelsbachers , the Counts of Ortenburg and the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg were involved in the flaming dispute over the Leonberg inheritance . Gangkofen then came to the Counts of Ortenburg in 1379. On October 16, 1385, however, the possessions passed from Count Heinrich IV zu Ortenburg and his wife Agnes von Hals to the Wittelsbach family on Kaufweg.

Already on March 3, 1327 a Chunrat of the Drenbech, judge of Geinhofen is named. On March 12, 1376, a court is mentioned in the Gangkofen market. Since the middle of the 15th century, the Gangkofen nursing court began to attract the small nursing massing more and more and to incorporate it. The rulership of Gangkofen belonged to the Bavarian Imperial Circle formed by Emperor Maximilian I around 1500 , while the German Order Commander Gangkofen that was created here belonged to the Franconian Imperial Circle .

In 1803 the Pfleggericht Gangkofen from is District Court Vilsbiburg the district court Eggenfelden assumed. In the course of the reforms of 1818 and the regional reforms of the 1970s, the current municipality of Gangkofen emerged from this.

Building Marktplatz 32 in Gangkofen

Buildings

Parts of the former late medieval castle are contained in the two-story, listed building with hip roof, Marktplatz 32 in Gangkofen. The building has neo-baroque gable panels, the core of which probably dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, but may be even older.

literature

• Paul Mai: History of the parish Gangkofen . In: Festival committee 700 years of foundation of the German Order Coming Gangkofen: Gangkofen and the German Order Coming 1279-1979 (pp. 99–143). Self-published, Gangkofen 1979.
• Rita Lubos: The Eggenfelden district court . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 28). Commission for Bavarian History, Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9874-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Mai, 1979, p. 100.

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '16.4 "  N , 12 ° 33' 49.8"  E