Kaibitz Castle

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The listed Kaibitz Castle is located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate town of Kemnath in the Tirschenreuth district (Kaibitz 1 and 2).

history

When the Kaibitz Castle was founded is not known, but due to parallels to the nearby Wolframshof Castle, it can be assumed that it was founded in the 11th century. Kaibitz is mentioned in the Leuchtenberger Lehenbuch around 1400 with several owners ( Hainrich Oberndorffer , Herman, Hanns, Albrecht and Ott di Santner , Hans Erlpeckkch ), although it is not clear who owned the castle. It is possible that the Leuchtenbergers then sold Kaibitz to the Wittelsbach family . In 1418 Paulus Grünhofer sells the hammer to Ulrich Löneiß . From then on, the Löneiß are both owners of the hammer as well as the country estate . In 1507 Kaibitz appears as a Palatine fiefdom , with Wilhelm and Georg Löneiß being named here. From 1518 to 1550 Jorg Loneiß is still called to Keybiz and Schonreut .

A long line of owners followed for the following centuries: Christoph and Caspar Loneysen zu Keibitz (1563–1570), Christoffs Erben (1599), Jakob von Streitberg (1599–1601), Hans David Dietz with Leonhard and Hans Leonhard Dietz (1601– 1646), Johann Appelmoos (Abel Moß) (1646–1669), Johann Erhard Braun and his widow (1660–1690), Thomas Macculin von Süssenfeld (1690–1702), Valencour (1702–1713), Kasimir von Haberland (1713– 1760), Christoph Freiherr von Buseck (1760–1789), Christian Freiherr von Lochner zu Hüttenbach (1789–1825), with Amalia Lochner von Hüttenbach, b. Countess von Holnstein, allegedly because of improper behavior was married here in the province, Ernst Freiherr von Hirschberg (1825–1842) and then Franz Freiherr von Künsberg .

From 1939, the author and screenwriter Erich Ebermayer should be highlighted among the number of other owners . His scripts " Die Mädels vom Immenhof " (1956) and "Der Blaue Nachtmalter" (1959) were created at Kaibitz Castle. After the Second World War , Gerhart Hauptmann's archives were brought from Agnetendorf (Lower Silesia) to Kaibitz. Ebermayer died in Terracina in 1970 ; his urn was buried in the Kaibitz palace gardens at the request of his will. A tombstone erected in 1979 at the instigation of Peer Baedeker commemorates the "captain friend" Erich Ebermayer.

Today the Kaibitz Castle is privately owned.

Kaibitz Castle then and now

The castle is located in the middle of Kaibitz on a rock spur that protrudes into the valley of the Haidenaab and the Fallbach. It is a three-wing system. The central pavilion is a three-storey, plastered solid structure with a mansard roof and a segmental arched portal. The side wings form two-story solid buildings with hipped roofs . The castle has a house chapel. Here, in the summer of 2004, Dirk Heißerer found the literary legacy of Erich Ebermayer "under dust and cobwebs" and published it under the title "Eh 'I forget ...". The construction was described in 1629 as a beautifully built seat surrounded by a moat , which was renewed in 1795. On the vaulted ground floor of the castle there is an entrance hall spanned with groin vaults. A horse stable was housed in the eastern side wing. The square core building is the location of the earlier tower.

The complex includes a park with trees from the time it was built, as well as an economic courtyard. This is a single-storey, plastered solid building with a hipped roof, stone walls and a wooden eaves cornice from the 18th century. Connected to the west is a two-storey solid building with a gable roof from the first half of the 19th century.

In the area of ​​the former outer bailey is the former paper mill, a single-storey, plastered solid structure with a gable roof , neo-Gothic stepped gables and sandstone walls. Connected to it is a single-storey, plastered solid building with a crooked hip roof from the first half of the 19th century. In the former castle brewery there are cellars with walls up to six meters thick. Remains of the outer bailey fortifications are in a quarry stone wall that delimits the castle park to the south.

literature

  • Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .
  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 , pp. 140-143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Kemnath (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ^ Manfred Knedlik: Kaibitz Castle: Erich Ebermayer's Gerhart Hauptmann Archive. In: Literaturportal Bayern. Retrieved May 21, 2016 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 42.3 "  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 56.7"  E