Burgweinting Castle

Weinting Castle
Weinting - detail from Philipp Apian's Bavarian country tables from 1568
Creation time :	High medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Regensburg - Burgweinting
Geographical location	48 ° 59 '21.1 "  N , 12 ° 8' 21.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '21.1 "  N , 12 ° 8' 21.7"  E
Height:	335  m above sea level NHN

The castle Burgweinting is an Outbound high medieval lowland castle in Burgweinting , the 18th district of Regensburg in Bavaria .

history

A family named after Weinting appears in the traditions of the convent from 1180. During the 13th century this family shifted their interests to Regensburg and gave up their goods in (Burg-) Weinting. In the oldest document about Burgweinting from 1313, the abbess Bertha Walterin of the Obermünster monastery gives her Kastener Chunrat and his family a field in the Purchvelde near Weinting . In a pen book of the Holy Cross Monastery , a meadow is assigned in 1327, located at Pürkh weindting . In 1331, Läutwein sold three gardens located in the Weinting family datz puerch weinting to the Wolfgang Brotherhood of Regensburg. In the following years the place appears under a form that approximates today's spelling (1348 Purchweintting , 1350 Purkweinting ). In 1360, Läutwein der Löbel (possibly identical to the aforementioned Läutwein) sells a courtyard that is located in Weinting, do di Chirchen innne towards the St. Emmeram monastery . All of this seems to suggest a castle with a palace chapel in Weinting.

The building in Burgweinting that used to exist and was erroneously referred to as a synagogue or Jewish temple in the vernacular (demolished in the 20th century because of dilapidation) was the church of St. Johann Baptist . Its structural features (with a profane basement and equipped with eaves and high gable windows) indicate the possibility that this was the former palace chapel. The separate upper entrance to the church was also typical of an aristocratic chapel. A wall band with Romanesque capitals that is no longer in existence can be dated to the 12th or 13th century. In the 19th century, this property was still subject to taxes to the St. Emmeram monastery, an indication of the independence of the chapel mentioned in 1360 on the later Flotzinger Hof .

In the description of the country by Philipp Apian from 1568, a church in Weinting and on the other side of the Aubache a building with a tower, i.e. the castle in question, Weinting, as arx and another church (the castle chapel St. Johann Baptist ) shown ( pagus, templum et arx ). However, there are no explicit documentary references to this castle complex.

description

No remains of the former castle complex in what is now the center of Burgweinting have survived. The mostly overbuilt castle stables are registered by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as soil monument D-3-7038-0179 “Archaeological findings and finds in the area of ​​an abandoned Niederungsburg with the associated castle chapel from the High Middle Ages” .

literature

• Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . (= Series of Regensburg Studies and Sources on Cultural History, Volume 5 ). Published by the museums and the archive of the city of Regensburg. Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 127-131.
• Anton Ziegler: The Jewish temple of Burgweinting. Our homeland (Tagesanzeiger). Journal for Bavarian State History (ZBLG), 1952, No. 10.

Web links

• Entry on Burgweinting in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ^ Werner Robl: The Romanesque country churches with profane upper floor. In: Burgrave Heinrich III. of Regensburg and its legacy: The Romanesque protective churches of Old Bavaria. 2012, accessed March 20, 2015 . 
3. ↑ List of monuments for Regensburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 476 kB)