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Kastl is a municipality in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria in Germany.
[edit] Geography
The market Kastl is in the eastern part of the Francish Nightmare, in Upper Palatinate, in the valley of Lauterach - a tributary of the Vils, fairly in the middle between Nürnberg and Regensburg and in the middle between Amberg and Neumarkt, too.
[edit] History
The local name refers to an early-medieval castle which was converted into a Benedictine's cloister between 1098 and 1103 by the counts Otto and Hermann von Kastl, count Berengar von Sulzbach and the countess Luitgart. The cloister is the oldest Benedictine's cloister of the north region in Bavaria and was till 1188 the house cloister of the high-powered counts of Sulzbach. It was worth as one of the important reform cloisters of the Hirsauer reform movement till the South Germany during the 12-th century. The church - architecture-historically and art-historically very significant - is consecrated to holy Peter. In the high-level Middle Ages the cloister can be counted as one of the cultural centres of today's Upper Palatinate. The place received 1323 the market right with owns important rights from Ludwig to Bavaria whose daughter passed away at the toddler age and - receive as a mummy - can be visited in the minster. The cloister existed up to Säkularisation in 1803, belonged during the Reformation to the Jesuits and after cancellation of the Jesuits in 1782 to the Maltese Knight's order and Knights of Malta in which it had been handed over by the Bavarian Kürfürsten Karl Theodor. The place was a part of the electorate Bavaria and formed a closed court mark whose seat was the cloister. Kastl was till 1929 (less than 80 years ago) a centre of the district (precursor of the administrative districts called Landkreise) with district court and tax office. Before, at least with the discussion for the construction of the railway lines, Kastl had got in the field of the different interests visions in Amberg and Neumarkt.
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