Hohenwarth Castle

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The Hohenwarth Castle is located in the same Upper Palatinate municipality Hohenwarth in the district of Cham of Bavaria (Schloßgasse 1).

history

At the end of the 12th century, ministerials of the Margraves of Cham , who call themselves after Hohenwarth, have come down to us. Around 1180 a Meginhard and his brother Konrad von Hohenwarth are mentioned in a document from the Reichenbach monastery on the occasion of an exchange of goods. A gender of the same name that occurs at the same time in Kötzting may have been a branch of the Hohenwarther family ( Meginhard and Konrad also sometimes called themselves von Kötzting and Dangelsdorf ). In 1205 and 1221 a Pertoldus de Hohenwarte appears , who was also related to the Grafenwiesenern . Family members of the Hohenwarter also rose to be provosts of the Rott monastery. This family is owned by Hohenwarth until the first half of the 15th century. In 1418 Hans Hohenwarter died as the last of his family. But there was already an Andre Zennger zu Hohenwarth in 1409 . At the beginning of the 15th century, the Hohenwarther family can be found at Grafenwiesen Castle , at that time they seem to have lost their ancestral castle in Hohenwarth.

In 1414 the abbot of Rott monastery gave the vest Hochenwarth to Wigileis von Hoff († 1455), d. H. Hohenwarth was a fiefdom of this monastery. In 1432 Hans Poyßl zu Miltach is the owner of the fief. In 1455 Barbara Lämmlin received Hohenwarth as a fief († 1470). At the end of the 15th century, Hohenwarth appears as Hofmark in the hands of Notthracht von Wernberg on Runding . They succeed in shaking off the monastic sovereignty and keeping Hohenwarth as free property . In 1549 Ludwig von Eyb acquired the over-indebted Hofmark along with other goods from Notthracht. Under Ludwig von Eyb , the old church (castle chapel) of Hohenwarth was built in 1589 (largely demolished in the 19th century, only the choir is preserved ). On October 8, 1612, the abbot von Rott gives Hans Sigmund Kädinger von Schönhöring Hohenwarth as a fief that he bought from Eyb. During this time the monastery was able to restore its fiefdom after a legal dispute and the Eybs may therefore sell Hohenwarth in 1612 to Hans Sigmund Kädinger . As early as 1615 the rule was sold on to Hans Georg Reittorner von Schöllnach . The next to be found here are the Gembels (1686–1689) who came to Hohenwarth by hereditary path. In 1689 the Poyßl buy the Hofmark and also try to deny the fiefdom of the Rott monastery. In 1693 Friedrich Wilhelm von Pelkoven took over the ownership. As early as 1694, the Poyßl regained the Hofmark through purchase. In 1807 Marianne von Poißl left the Hofmark to her nephew Emanuel Freiherrn von Hafenbrädl .

In the course of secularization , the former Hohenwarth male and female fiefdom is all modified . In 1820 the Hafenbrändl was allowed to set up a second class patrimonial court . In 1829 the government withdrew his jurisdiction. After 1848 the castle passed into the bourgeois hands of the Kötzting brewery family, Kasten. Today it is owned by the Vogl family and used as a Schlossbräu restaurant. The brewery was given up in 1969.

Hohenwarth Castle then and now

The name Hohenwarth is derived from a watchtower on the Wachsteinfelsen , which monitored the valley of the White Rain east of Kötzting . Today this is only preserved as a castle stable . In the 14th century a new construction of the plant is assumed. The rock sloping on all sides still offers a comprehensive panoramic view today. A trench carved into the rock secures it to the south. There is a carved entrance on the west side.

Hohenwarth Castle after an engraving by Johann Poppel from 1846

In the middle of the 15th century the watchtower at Hohenwarth became a castle, this seems to have become a ruin as early as 1550, in the Hofmarksverzeichnis from 1558 it says ain öd Burrkhstall . In the map of Philipp Apian from 1568 Hohenwarth is shown as a complex with a stepped gable , circular wall and a tower, but in his description he speaks of Hochnwarth ... arcis ruinae in colle . In 1570 a new castle was built near the old castle. It was probably where the cemetery and parish church are today. The castle survived the Thirty Years' War unscathed, but in 1647 a fire had cremated the Eyb castle. As a result, today's castle was built, built around 1650–1655 by Johann Franz Reittorner . The year 1763 can also be found on the building, which indicates that corresponding modifications were also made during this period.

The listed former castle is a two- to three-storey four-wing complex over an irregular floor plan with hipped roofs and arched gate entrances in the west and east wings. The central part of the north wing protrudes prominently. The core of the building is medieval , but it was changed in the 17th and 18th centuries as well as in modern times. The interior has largely been changed by other uses.

literature

  • Max Piendl : The Kötzting district court . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Part Altbayern Heft 5). Michael Lassleben, Munich 1953, p. 39-41 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst, 2001, pp. 138–141.
  2. ^ Entry by Bernhard Ernst zu Hohenwarth-I in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on August 31, 2016.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '12.3 "  N , 12 ° 56' 2.7"  E