Abensberg Castle
Abensberg Castle | ||
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Remains of the castle in Abensberg (in the foreground) |
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Creation time : | 1256 first mention | |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
Conservation status: | ruin | |
Place: | Abensberg | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 48 '55.8 " N , 11 ° 50' 46.3" E | |
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The remains of Abensberg Castle are in the town of Abensberg at Aventinusplatz 6 in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim . The core of the moated castle was built in the Middle Ages and is now a protected architectural monument .
history
The Abensberg castle was first mentioned in 1256. The roughly rectangular layout of the outer bailey is separated from the main castle by a deep moat . On the north and west side there are baroque buildings, former official buildings with pitched roofs . The flanking tower on the northeast corner comes from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century. A late Gothic semicircular tower stands on the southern Bering , next to it a front building with a mansard roof . After the destruction during the Thirty Years War, only remnants of the 13th / 14th of the main castle remain. Century. Remains of the circular wall , the flanking towers, the kennel and a hipped roof on the south side have also been preserved.
The city fortifications built in the 14th and 15th centuries were connected to the castle fortifications.
literature
- Georg Paula , Volker Liedke, Michael M. Rind : District of Kelheim (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume II.30 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7954-0009-0 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria II - Lower Bavaria . Modifications made by Michael Brix. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 , pp. 5-6.
Web links
- Abensberg City Museum
- Entry on Burgrest Abensberg in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 28, 2015.