Cultural heritage D-2-7345-0130 in Windorf

The former hunting lodge stands in Kading, a village in the market town of Windorf in Lower Bavaria. It was built as an aristocratic seat and later became a prince-bishop’s hunting lodge. The site is protected both as a monument above ground and as an archaeological site below. The remains include parts of a 17th-century stone wall and a three-storey gabled building with a round corner turret. The place matters because it links to powerful families who shaped the region. The Jagenreuters held the seat in the 15th century, followed by the Rohrbecks and then the Waltingers. In 1562 Sebastian Reindl acquired it as a bishop’s fief, and by 1690 it passed to the Hochstift Passau. Bishops like Joseph Maria von Thun und Hohenstein ordered repairs in the 18th century before the lodge fell into decay after 1793. Visitors see the surviving three-storey main block and its south-east wing with the turret. Outside, remains of the old curtain wall still stand in places. A pond now fills the former courtyard where no water existed before. The quiet surroundings and modest ruins give a sense of how such small seats were lived in and later abandoned.