Falkenberg Castle (Moosach)

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Falkenberg Castle
Historical survey of the Falkenberg castle stables with outer and main castle (1889)

Historical survey of the Falkenberg castle stables with outer and main castle (1889)

Creation time : 1120 to 1160
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, built over
Place: Moosach - Falkenberg
Geographical location 48 ° 2 '7.6 "  N , 11 ° 53' 18.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '7.6 "  N , 11 ° 53' 18.1"  E
Height: 545  m above sea level NHN
Falkenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Falkenberg Castle

The castle Falkenberg is an Outbound hilltop castle in Falkenberg , a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality Moosach in Ebersberg . It was at 545  m above sea level. NHN high terrain spur above the Moosach valley in the area of ​​today's “Burgweg” road.

history

Otto von Scheyern (later von Wittelsbach ) can be regarded as the founder of the castle . His son Otto was accompanied on a trip to the Holy Land by the later castle captain on Falkenberg Osrich (son of the father of the same name, who worked for the Wittelsbachers at Wartenberg Castle in 1116/17 ) , Osrich appeared in Jerusalem as a seal witness . The castle was built between 1120 and 1160. The castle was built on the bottom of the Bishop of Freising, where the Counts of Scheyern here and elsewhere Bailiwick right exercised. The castle remained in the possession of the Wittelsbach family, the next to be named Ludwig the Kelheimer .

The castle was administered by the castle captains. Osrich (previously Straussendorf), named in 1160, is the first to be known. He was followed by his son Heinrich as castellan (1174 / 80–1212). Other administrators were Adalbero Chranz, Friedrich Stier, Werner Kretzel, the Kastner Wigand, Otto Kretzel, Ritter der Sprinz. Around 1230 the Falkenberg Castle was a ducal land registry office, from which more than 40 farms were administered. The first judge at the castle is Oulricus Judex de Valchenberck (= Ulrich, Richter von Falkenberg) (mentioned for the first time in a document from the Schäftlarn monastery in 1182, mentioned until 1203).

In 1247 Markt Schwaben came to the Wittelsbach family and was initially administered by the office at Falkenberg Castle. With the establishment of a regional court in Markt Schwaben in 1340, the administration moved to this place and Falkenberg Castle lost its importance as the administrative seat. The last document in which Falkenberg Castle is mentioned comes from 1282; Nothing is known about the further development and the end of the castle. Presumably it was destroyed in the Bavarian War of 1414 or the Landshut War of Succession in 1504. The coat of arms of the finished county of Falkenberg was in 1409 by Duke Stefan III. awarded to Markt Schwaben (this award may however refer to the County of Falkenberg der Falkenberger in the Inn Valley). In 1517 there is again talk of a Falkenberg castle stable on which the Cunz fisherman sat.

Todays use

In the tax register the place of the castle was called "Burg-Landacker". Today the square is built over by the so-called "Siemenssiedlung". In 1982 a street here was named "Burgweg".

In the 19th century building stones indicating a fire were excavated here, and in 1960 building remains and tuff stones were found. Falkenberg Castle was built below the castle . The falcon in the Moosach coat of arms still reminds of the castle.

literature

  • Peter Maicher: Falkenberg's past greatness - a memory . In: Land around the Ebersberger Forest - Contributions to history and culture . Volume 17, 2014, pp. 94-189.

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