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Sattelbogen Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The lost Sattelbogen Castle was located in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate community of Traitsching in the Cham district of Bavaria . The complex is located in the area of ​​the Sattelbogen cemetery, parts are also integrated into the current church - possibly the north wall of the former castle chapel (Am Burggraben 2).

history

The name of the castle and the place is derived from the name of the Counts von Bogen , although there is no agreement on the saddle part of the name ( terrain formation or sedel ). The first saddle archers appear in the 12th century as ministerials for the Counts of Bogen. The first reliably verifiable member of this family is Adalbert I von Sattelbogen around 1130 . In 1155 there is a Konrad I and an Otto von Sattelbogen . Konrad is also mentioned around 1150 in a tradition of the convent in Testing . Adalbert appears as Salmann in an Oberaltaich tradition around 1170, and Rapoto et Liebart de Satelbogen are also mentioned. Albert II is also listed among the Diepoldingian ministerials, which means a change in the service team. In 1288 this is also mentioned in documents from the Reichenbach monastery . Around 1229 he is mentioned among the followers of the Wittelsbach family ; Duke Ludwig I calls him his ministerial . This Albert II had a chapel built on what was then Sattelbogen Castle.

Albert III is mentioned in 1241 when properties were handed over to the Niederaltaich monastery . His son Albert IV was at times a judge in Viechtach , his other son Konrad was archdeacon in the diocese of Regensburg . Under him, in the wake of the Ottonian hand festivals , Sattelbogen was granted lower jurisdiction and freedom of the local people from 1311 . In the course of the 14th century, the Sattelbogen family acquired various castles and estates (e.g. Castle Geltolfing , Liebenstein , Lichteneck ), but Sattelbogen Castle remained one of the headquarters of the branching family. When the country was divided in 1331, Sattelbogen went to Duke Heinrich XV. from Lower Bavaria . Through the pledging of the Cham court, Sattelbogen passed to the Palatinate Wittelsbach family and in 1361, through the partial redemption, to Albrecht I of Lower Bavaria-Straubing-Holland . The border ran in such a way that the village of Sattelbogen was on Bavarian territory and the castle and Hofmark from the 16th to 19th centuries on Palatinate territory.

The other successors in the ownership of Sattelbogen were Hans I and Heinrich II, the presumed sons of Albert IV. The descendants of Hans I were Heinrich III, Agnes and Anna . In 1375 Heinrich III. have sold half of his stake in the castle to his brother-in-law Hans Rainer von Rain . The other half came through Anna to Karl Ramsperger, who named himself after Sattelbogen after 1392. In 1408 Anna married Dietrich Hofer von Lobenstein , who also bought the other part of the property. After his death († 1416) his son of the same name succeeded him. Since he died childless, the property came back to the Rainer von Rain through his brother Degenhart Hofer's daughter Anastasia . After the transfer to Haymeran Rainer , the castle came to his sons Peter and Christoph, who held it together until 1495. Then they were followed by Peter's son named Christoph . He sold saddle bows to Christoph Zenger . This was inherited in 1518 by his son-in-law Jörg von Murach . In 1541 he sold saddle bows to Christoph Rainer . Via his stepson Hans Joachim Rainer , Sattelbogen was sold to Georg Baumgartner on Frauenstein in 1553 . After the death of Hans Christoph von Baumgarten , the Hofmark passed to Georg Schönsteiner von Schönstein in 1609 and to the Baron von Weichs on Falkenfels in 1617 . In 1623 the Hofmark came to Hans Adam Wager von Höhenkirchen and Vilsheim . This family remained in their possession until 1764. After Ignatius Cajetan Wager's death , the heavily indebted property was sold by his widow to Franz von Segesser zu Notzing . From this it passed to Nepomuk von Pelkoven in 1776 . In 1784 this saddle pile stone was sold to the Oberalteich monastery , in whose possession it remained until the secularization in 1803.

Afterwards the estates were acquired by Franz Xaver von Hafenbrädl , who died in 1806. His son sold the dilapidated castle to private individuals and "smashed" the property belonging to the Hofmark. In 1824 the castle was taken over by the community, who set up a school and apartments here.

Castle Sattelbogen then and now

Originally, a castle can be assumed here, which was built in the first half of the 12th century. Nothing is known about the appearance of the high and late medieval castle, some of which are even located at a different location. It is only clear that it was of considerable extent and was protected by a mighty ring moat, the last 120 m long section of which was only filled in 1919. When ownership was transferred to Georg Baumgartner in 1553, Sattelbogen Castle no longer existed, because in 1568 Philipp Apian only mentions the village of Sattelbogen. Later (e.g. 1582 and 1625) only one noble seat is mentioned here. Presumably the castle was destroyed by fire, as it is not mentioned in the course of warlike events (e.g. in the context of the Löwlerbund or the Böckler war ).

A new palace was probably built under the Baumgartners . However, they did not live in Sattelbogen themselves, but had the property administered by carers . Presumably in 1641 the castle was destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years War . Only the castle chapel remained.

Under Johann Adam Wager , a new castle was built 50 steps further east of the old castle, which can also be seen on the picture by Michael Wening from 1721. This was an unimpressive rectangular, three-storey gable roof building with numerous outbuildings. A number of farm buildings can be seen across from the mansion. In 1718 the church was rebuilt.

In 1856 the castle fell victim to a fire and was replaced by the school building that still exists today. The cellars of the old schoolhouse may still come from the Sattelbogen Castle. But nothing of it can be seen above ground.

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 .
  • Johann Schmid: History of the Hofmark Sattelbogen (Cham, Obpf.). Library for Folklore and Local Studies, 1904.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Ernst, 2001, pp. 254–258.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 12 ° 37 ′ 33.2 ″  E