Ebersberg Castle (Bavaria)

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Ebersberg Castle
Creation time : 888 to 896
Castle type : Höhenburg, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Ebersberg
Geographical location 48 ° 4 '39 "  N , 11 ° 58' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '39 "  N , 11 ° 58' 17"  E
Height: 585  m above sea level NHN
Ebersberg Castle (Bavaria)
Ebersberg Castle

The Castle Ebersberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on a hill at 585  m above sea level. NHN above the Ebrachtal at the site of today's St. Sebastian monastery church in Ebersberg (Schlossplatz 1–3) in the Ebersberg district in Bavaria .

history

In the 9th century, the Counts of Sempt-Ebersberg moved their castle seat from Sempt to Ebersberg, where they built a fortification made of wood and earth (lignis oppidum) between 888 and 896. Considered as a Carolingian - Ottonian central castle due to its size of 1.7 hectares, it measured about 130 by 200 meters and was secured against the Hungarian invasions in 933 under Count Eberhard I. von Sempt-Ebersberg with a stone ring wall and a deepening of the ring trench .

In 934 a canon monastery was founded in the castle area by Eberhard I and Adalpero I, and between 969 and 1029 the castle was converted into the Ebersberg monastery , consecrated to St. Mary and St. Sebastian . In 1045 the Counts of Ebersberg died out, their property fell to the Counts of Scheyern-Wittelsbach .

In 1952 archaeological excavations took place in the former moat , as well as explorations in 1978. The castle stable is now a ground monument .

Nothing has survived from the former castle complex, the former course of the castle wall and the ring moat can be seen in the course of the Bahnhofstrasse, Jesuitstrasse, Pernerstrasse and Benediktinerstrasse. To the north, a distributed slope edge towards the Ebrachsenke has been preserved.

literature

  • Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, pp. 120–122.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 72 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 120 f.
  3. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 121.