Hexenagger Castle

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Hexenagger Castle
Hexenagger Castle around 1700 after Michael Wening

Hexenagger Castle is a baroque castle on a mountain spur above the Bavarian town of Hexenagger near Altmannstein in the Schambachtal , a side valley of the Altmühl. In its current form, the castle with its chapel was rebuilt from 1625 to 1629 on the basis of the castle that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

history

The medieval castle was built by the lords of Hexenagger, who are mentioned in a document from 928 to 1480 . In 1485 the castle came to the family of the Counts of Helfenstein through marriage , who sold the fortress to Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria in 1528 . He gave Hexenagger to the Muggenthal family as a fief . When the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, the Muggenthalers rebuilt it as a castle.

In 1724 the castle was sold to the Bavarian elector Karl Albrecht , because the Muggenthaler Hexenagger line had died out. In 1731, Elector Karl Albrecht gave the castle to his mistress Maria Josepha Countess von Morawitzky. Her husband received the castle in 1738, and when he died in 1754, Anton von Kayserstein became the new owner. Franz Joseph III. von Kaiserstein (1792-1893) sold the castle in 1830 and acquired an estate in Sooss (Lower Austria) for it. Until 1951 Hexenagger Castle belonged to the nobles von Weidenbach. Otto Edler von Weidenbach bequeathed it to his niece Ilse von Kalckreuth, who married Wilhelm Leichtfuß, whose son Eberhard Leichtfuß owns it today.

literature

  • Karl Zecherle (Red.): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 70-71 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pusikan ( Oskar Göschen ): The Kaiserstein. History of the house. Verlag Braumüller, Vienna. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , 1873, accessed on March 11, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 54.1 ″  E