Ebertshausen Castle

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Ebertshausen Castle
The castle hill from the west

The castle hill from the west

Creation time : probably before 700 AD
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Gmund am Tegernsee - Gut Kaltenbrunn
Geographical location 47 ° 44 '40.3 "  N , 11 ° 43' 15.8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '40.3 "  N , 11 ° 43' 15.8"  E
Height: 770  m above sea level NN
Ebertshausen Castle (Bavaria)
Ebertshausen Castle

Castle Ebertshausen (also Ebratshausen ) is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) on the territory of the municipality Gmund at the north end of the lake Tegernsee . It was located on a castle hill west of today's Kaltenbrunn estate in the Miesbach district in Bavaria .

history

According to unsecured information, a castle hill or at least a tower from Roman occupation was found on the site as early as 700 AD . It is very likely that this was used by the founders of the Tegernsee Monastery , Adalbert and Ottokar, for the military protection of the monastery building.

Today the Burgstall still shows a foundation wall of 33 by 22 meters in the square. This wall can be dated to the 11th century based on the stone insert. The motte of that time consisted of a wall, a residential building and a tower. The farm buildings belonging to the castle were probably located east of the castle hill on what is now the Kaltenbrunn estate. In 1120 the castle was acquired by a person named "Herbreht", which gave it the name Herbrechtshausen or the form Ebertshausen that is in use today. The family owned the castle until the beginning of the 13th century. At this point in time the last documented mention of the sex in the person of a "Wezil" and his son "Hartmannus" is found.

In 1217, the Tegernsee Monastery again acquired the castle and its property and gave it to the Rabeneckern as a fief. From 1286 the castle was given to a "Wichland" from the monastic manor of Eurasburg as a fief . The fiefdom was appointed to Tegernsee as a monastery marshal. According to the Monumenta Boica, the fiefdom included the castle of Ebertshausen with the tower there, the land and 52 courtyards, mostly desert areas.

Due to disputes between the fiefdom taker and the abbot of the monastery, among other things because of commercial land and fishing rights, the abbot replaced the fiefdom of Wichland's son Otto with a sum of 300 pounds pfennigs after a five-year tenure . This price included all the land owned by the Eurasburger in the area, making the monastery almost the sole landowner in the Tegernsee valley and far beyond. In 1321, Emperor Ludwig der Baier gave the monastery the lower jurisdiction for the Tegernsee corner.

The castle remained uninhabited for the next two centuries. It only served occasionally as a base, e.g. B. for hunting trips of the nobility. In 1468 the castle was falling into decay to such an extent that the castle was razed to the ground .

literature

  • Hans Halmbacher: The Tegernsee valley in historical pictures and local histories of the valley communities . Volume 1. Fuchs-Druck, Hausham 1980.
  • 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. 122–124.

Web links

Commons : Burg Ebertshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alois Weißthanner: The traditions of the Schäftlarn monastery 760-1305, sources and discussions on Bavarian history , Volume 10, Part 1, Munich 1953, p. 443
  2. ↑ a b Lorenz Radelmaier: The original local chronicle: about the old communities Wiessee and Abwinkl on the west bank of the Tegernsee . Edited by Hermine Kaiser, 2014 (self-published, without ISBN), p. 50 f.