Erneck Castle

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Erneck Castle
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Left, three trenches received
Place: Ering - Ernegg -Waldflur "Leitenholz"
Geographical location 48 ° 18 '43 "  N , 13 ° 10' 11.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '43 "  N , 13 ° 10' 11.5"  E
Height: 430  m above sea level NHN
Erneck Castle (Bavaria)
Erneck Castle

The castle Erneck is an Outbound hilltop castle in Ernegg , in the municipality of Ering in Rottal-Inn of Bavaria . Only a few remains of the former castle of the Bamberg bishopric have survived today, such as the moats . The site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7645-0145 "Burgstall of the high and late Middle Ages (Erneck)".

Geographical location

The now completely wooded castle site is around 430  m above sea level. NHN Höhe on an east-facing spur that is formed on its south side by the wide Inn valley , which also marks the border with Austria here . At its tip in the east and on its north side, this spur is bounded by a steep and deeply dug valley that separates the spur from the neighboring Eichberg and through which the district boundary between Rottal-Inn and Passau runs. The hamlet of Ernegg is to the west of the castle , after which the terrain rises slightly to 477  m above sea level. NHN high Tannenberg.

history

The Ering-Erneck reign came into being on the soil of the Bamberg monastery . At first the lords of Kamm ( Chambe ) were the owners of the bailiwick over Ering. Successors to Ering-Erneck were the Counts von Hals . Due to debts, the Counts von Hals had to pledge this rule to the Puchbergers in 1320. However, they were soon able to redeem the deposit. Erneck Castle was stormed and burned down in 1330, but was then rebuilt. After the Halser family died out in 1375 with Leopold von Hals, the rule came to Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg . They used nurses who sat at Erneck Castle. In 1377 the rule of Ering-Erneck passed to the Bavarian dukes on Kaufweg.

Coat of arms of the Puchbergers in Scheibler's register of arms from 1450–1580

The castle stood on the hills north of Ering until 1504. In the Landshut War of Succession , the castle was destroyed again, but not rebuilt afterwards. After Erneck's destruction, the nurses finally moved to Frauenstein ; before that, the nurses there had alternately referred to Frauenstein or Erneck, z. B. Ulrich Fronhammer, nurse to Erneck and Frauenstein (1435), Waltasar Rosenstingl nurse to Frauenstein (1441), Waltasar Apfenthaler nurse to Erneck and Frauenstein (1442), Haidraich Leberskircher to ichtenhag nurse to d Frauenstein.

The Erneck-Ering nursing court was transferred to B (P) aumgarten in 1508 . A caste office was also set up in Erneck, which was marked against the parish church district court in 1508.

description

The castle is around 200 meters long in an east-west direction and up to 100 meters wide from north to south and is divided into three areas. It is separated from the fore area, which gradually rises to the west, by a wide and deep ditch. The ditch is followed by a crescent-shaped area, after which the cone-like elevation of the presumed main castle rises. On this cone, which also formed the highest point of the castle, there is a plateau with a diameter of 60 meters, the edges are steeply sloped. In the north the plateau is divided by a ditch with a wall. On the southeastern spur slope, the core area was additionally secured by a slope trench. Both trenches flow into a deep neck trench running from north to south and lying deeper than this, both ends of which run out into the slopes. This trench formed another plateau with a diameter of 30 to 40 meters on a conical elevation at the eastern tip of the facility.

literature

  • 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 , pp. 288-289.
  • Ilse Louis: Parish churches. The nursing courts Reichenberg and Julbach and the rule Ering-Frauenstein . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, issue 31). Verlag Michael Laßleben, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7696-9878-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Ering (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)
  2. ↑ Location of the former Erneck Castle in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  3. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 288 f.