Hohenkammer Castle

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Hohenkammer Castle from the southeast, 2008
Copper engraving by Michael Wening in Topographia Bavariae around 1700
New construction of the hotel wing of the conference center - opposite the Hohenkammer moated castle

The Hohenkammer Castle is a Grade II listed castle in Hohenkammer in the district of Freising in Bavaria . It is a four-wing complex with an arbor courtyard, four bay-like corner towers and a square gate tower . As Hofmarkschloss it was the manor of the Hofmark Hohenkammer.

history

The original Hohenkammer Castle belonged to the Lords of Camer and Chamber, first attested in the 11th century, who settled in Hohenkammer in 1042. The "high lords of Camer" were ministerials of the Counts of Scheyern . From 1551 to 1801 the Hofmark Hohenkammer was owned by the Counts of Haslang , who built Hohenkammer Castle in the second half of the 16th century. After a devastating fire in 1648, it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. From 1804 to 1821 the castle was owned by Count Preysing and then passed to the publisher Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Cotta . From 1833 it was owned by the von Vequel-Westernach family. Mechthilde Freiin von Vequel-Westernach moved into a small villa nearby (today Baronessvilla ) and sold the castle to the Raiffeisen cooperative in 1917 . After changing uses, it became a training center for the Bavarian Raiffeisen Central Bank (later DZ Bank ) in 1970 .

Since 2003 the castle, Baroness-Villa and Gut Eichethof have been owned by the Munich Reinsurance Company , which operates a hotel and conference center with three restaurants in the castle through the newly founded Schloss Hohenkammer GmbH . In 2007 the castle was renovated.

Florian Vogel has been the head chef at Camers Schlossrestaurant , which was awarded a Michelin star in the 2017 Michelin Guide, since 2015 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hohenkammer Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Camer's Castle Restaurant. In: restaurant-ranglisten.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 29.4 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 15 ″  E