Geigant Castle

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The expired Geigant Castle was located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Waldmünchen in the Cham district of Bavaria (Pfarrstrasse 4). The castle or the former castle stood on a slope that sloped towards the Schwarzbach near the site of the former castle chapel, which is now occupied by the newly built church.

Knight with plate armor and coat of arms of the Kagerer in Geigant from the 16th century

history

The first local name bearer is a Gertrud Gaiganterin mentioned in 1120 . In 1261 a Wolframus de Gigant is mentioned. Presumably this area belonged to the Margraves of Cham as well as the nearby castle of Katzbach . In 1271 an Albertus de Gigant is attested. The construction of a castle in Geigant can be expected in the second half of the 13th century at the latest. In the Bavarian partition agreement of 1331, Geigant's seat is called geiganttinger .

The violinists' family is closely related to the Schönthal monastery and experienced a significant rise under Wolfgang II. Geygant . This is mentioned in 1289 and later as a judge in the district of Neunburg vorm Wald . His brothers Dietrich († after 1315) and Rudeger also appear with him . In 1301 he called himself dominus de Geygant and in 1316 he was named the Hereditary Knight, Her Wolfram von Gaigent . Together with his brother Heinrich I († 1315) he founded his family's burial chapel in Schönthal Abbey. Heinrich I was a judge at Neunburg between 1305 and 1310 and also took part in the Battle of Gammelsdorf in 1313 . There are also five brothers in the third generation: Hans I was a judge on the Schwarzenburg and is traceable between 1319 and 1367, Dietrich II was vicarage 1359-1362 of Nabburg and is mentioned between 1319 and 1368, Theodoric is between 1338 and Mentioned in 1348. Heinrich II von Geigand appears for the first time in 1341, was a judge in Amberg in 1351 and was last documented in 1388. The last of the brothers, Wolfram III. is only mentioned in 1326 and 1342 for the foundation of an anniversary .

In the fourth generation, a Wolfhart der Geyganter is once mentioned as a witness in 1354 and a Hilprant II. 1355. He is mentioned in 1417 in connection with the seat at Kaczpach , and bequeathed this seat to his sister and her children. A 1415 with the acquisition of the seat to Eslarn by the warden Bergern mentioned Hiltprant (III.) Should already belong to the next generation. In his will he leaves his wife, Margareten the violinist, the seat of the violinist with all the accessories he acquired from Stephan the violinist . This Steffan der Geyganter is attested from 1395-1398. Another Peter Geyganter appears between 1434 and 1470 . This must have got into financial difficulties, because before 1453 he was forced to sell his headquarters to the Kagerer . He himself still owned an estate at Rhan in what is now the municipality of Schönthal .

In 1440 Friedrich Khagerer is recorded here on the violin . This family remained in possession of the castle until 1625. She had her burial place in the castle chapel with Geigant. A view dating from 1540 shows Geigant with a large and a small tower next to a gate and a steep-gabled manor house. In 1579 Geigant became a Hofmark . In 1625 the son-in-law of Georg Kagerer , Hans Sebastian von Thein , acquired the country estate . In 1630 he sold this to Andreas Kolb von Raindorf on Lixenried . His widow had to emigrate in 1660 because of her Protestant belief. The castle was burned down as early as 1641 during the Thirty Years War . The chapel on the Pleschenberg, which served as the Calvinist parish church from 1577 to 1626 , was also destroyed on this occasion. The castle chapel, which was rebuilt around 1655, then took over its function.

Hans Christoph Kronacher is the owner of Geigant between 1671 and 1716 . In 1724 Franz Siigmund Singer from Moscow is the owner, followed by his son Franz Sigmund von Singer in 1741 . In 1745, Joseph Wenzel von Kern can be traced here, who had the St. Bartholomew's chapel connected to the palace renovated. In 1793 his heirs sold Geigant to Wilhelm von Weinbach . The last owners were the Counts of Pestalozza on Birken-Amdorf . In 1818 the Hofmark was abolished, the properties belonging to it "smashed" and the subjects submitted to the judge of Waldmünchen.

Geigant Castle

The castle was a rectangular structure with a gable front facing the street that was slightly inclined. In the eastern part of the north side, the building was slightly widened. The palace chapel immediately followed this. The palace construction was canceled between 1845 and 1849. The palace chapel was changed again in the second half of the 19th century and completely demolished in 1970. Today nothing can be seen of the castle. A granite epitaph , which shows a life-size figure of a knight with plate armor and with the coat of arms of the Kagerer from the end of the 16th century, has been walled in by Geigant since 2009 in the surrounding wall of the current church.

The Ritterschützen Geigant also remember Geigant's knightly past.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Part II catalog (=  work on the archeology of southern Germany . Volume 16 ). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2001, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Ernst, 2001, pp. 98-101.
  2. Homepage of the Ritterschützen Geigant ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schuetzengau-waldmuenchen.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 34.3 "  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 1.1"  E