Castle arch

Castle arch
Creation time :	around 1190
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Bogen - "Bogenberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 54 '33.3 " N , 12 ° 41' 44.1" E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '33.3 " N , 12 ° 41' 44.1" E
Height:	365 m above sea level NHN

The Castle Arch is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the Bogenberg at 365 m above sea level. NHN northeast of the city center of Bogen in the Straubing-Bogen district in Bavaria .

The Bogen Castle, previously a Celtic prince's seat and refuge , was built around 1190 by Count Albert III. von Bogen and was the seat of the Counts of Bogen.

Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex.

Trivia

The so-called white-blue wecken in heraldry ( Bavarian state coat of arms ; Bavarian diamond flag) come from the aristocratic family of Bogen and thus from Burg Bogen.

literature

Michael Weithmann: Castles and palaces in Lower Bavaria - guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley . Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2013, ISBN 978-3-936511-77-2 , pp. 136-137.
Karl Bosl (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 7: Bavaria (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 277). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .
Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 304.

Web links

Entry for arches in the private database "All castles".