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Schloß Hirschling The castle is a late medieval, Gothic, gable-end, raised, rectangular, three-story building with a saddle roof, stepped gables, a roof turret, and a St. Dionysius castle chapel, renovated in Baroque style around 1750, on the ground floor of the former tower. The roof turret was built in 1838. The builders of the castle in the 12th century were the lords of Heresing (Hirschling). Rudigerus de Heresingni is documented around 1134, and in 1168 a Hertnit de Hergesingen is mentioned. There is a document from Duke Ludwig the Bavarian dated February 7, 1224, concerning Conrad de Heresing, in which the ministeriale Konrad von Hirschling sells guardianship rights to the Katharinenspital in Regensburg. Further owners were the Hofer von Lobenstein; the first of them was Chalhoch, who appears as a witness to a donation in 1380. He sold Hirschling Castle in 1416 to the district judge of Burglengenfeld, Stephan Hofer. From 1514 onwards, Albrecht Sinzenhofer is mentioned here. In 1559, Hans von Leublfing, a government councilor in Straubing, acquired the property. The Parsbergers followed in 1565. In 1697, Hektor von Vischbach, a Swedish chamberlain and major, came into possession of the castle. Jakob Freiherr von Bazendorf acquired the castle in 1696, demolished the old tower, and had the castle renovated. A marble slab, which depicts the partially fictitious history of the castle in Latin, dates back to him. In 1697, the castle was Baroque-ized by Freiherrn Johannes Jakobus and Maria Katharina Elisabeth Sybille von Bazendorf. Joseph Freiherr von Schneid, lord of Ramspau, bought the castle in 1746. He was followed by the Freiherren von Pfetten (from 1801), in 1932 Eberhardt Hoesch acquired the property, and in 1950 a fundamental renovation of the castle took place, which came into the possession of the Kettenberger family from 1968 onwards. The castle remains in private ownership today. Source: Wikipedia

We were only passing through, but it looked very inviting.

Burgstall and Castle in Hirschling

Chapel of the Crucified Saviour Slightly to the side of federal highway 15 in Hagenau, stands the village chapel "To the Crucified Saviour", probably built in the last third of the 18th century, perhaps in 1771. It belongs to the late Rococo or early Classicism period and is a simple, single-axis, rectangular gable-roof building. The side walls are structured by wide plaster bands; the facade is designed in a Tuscan column order with two pairs of pilasters that support a bulbous beam and frame a slightly protruding basket-arch entrance. A small figure of the Virgin Mary stands in a niche in the gable. The roof has a four-sided wooden turret, whose Angelus bell from 1771 - it was also used as a death bell in the past - could hardly hold its own against the increasing traffic today. The furnishings are modest and nothing remains from the time of construction except for four corner pilasters, which are not uniformly designed but have different capitals. The walls are divided by large segmental arches; while the two windows on the long sides have square plaster frames on the outside, they have falling segmental arches on the inside. During a recent restoration of the chapel, which is owned by the Fischer family, ceiling paintings were discovered under a layer of paint that were not exposed for cost reasons. Source: Churches and chapels in the Regenstauf market

Beautiful view of the chapel

Very nice

The monastery complex also houses Caritas and the Center for Renewable Energies;

The "house without a roof", as it is officially called, is a cave dwelling that is still in use in the Upper Palatinate town of Kallmünz. The cave dwelling is located north of the Vils at the southern end of the Schlossberg, on which the Kallmünz castle ruins stand. The entrance is set back from Vilsgasse at the foot of a 20-meter-high limestone wall of the Schlossberg, and access leads between the listed residential buildings at Vilsgasse 26 and Vilsgasse 28. The house consists of a natural cave in the dolomite rock, the opening of which is closed off by a plastered wall with a door and windows. Inside there is a hallway, a living room, two storage rooms fitted into rock niches and a historic smokehouse. The oldest known mention of the cave dwelling can be found in a document kept in the land registry archive in Amberg with the year 1707. In the 19th century it was also known as the "house under the rock". In 1908 it was sold to the owner of the blacksmith's shop across the street, and it remains in his family's possession. The last permanent resident left the house in 1937 because he had developed rheumatism due to the damp cave air.