Gelting Castle

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Gelting Castle
Alternative name (s): Pleasure house
Creation time : 1381 mention of a "fortress"
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Pliening - Gelting
Geographical location 48 ° 12 '1.9 "  N , 11 ° 48' 41.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '1.9 "  N , 11 ° 48' 41.5"  E
Height: 505  m above sea level NN
Gelting Castle (Bavaria)
Gelting Castle

The Castle Gelting , later called Lusthaus , is a late medieval tower hill castle (Motte) in the area of ​​the Sommerhausstraße in the district of Gelting in the municipality of Pliening in the district of Ebersberg in Bavaria .

history

The castle was the seat of the Lords of Gelting named in 1030 until around 1340. The knight Ulrich der Pucher in 1369, Anna Pucher with the sale of the castle in 1404 to the Duke of Ingolstadt, in 1404 Grimoald Starzhauser and in 1418 Friedrich Reichertsheimer are named as other owners.

The castle complex consisted of a tower hill with a residential tower ( keep ) on a base area of ​​10.5 by 10.5 meters and a wall thickness of 3.5 meters, as well as an outer bailey with an associated farmyard. The castle was destroyed in 1421 by the troops of the Munich dukes and mentioned in 1501 as a castle stables .

In 1660 a hunting lodge and summer house ( pleasure house ) was built on the castle hill with the inclusion of older wall remains . After 1704 the complex fell into disrepair and in 1859 the castle hill was demolished and the trenches filled.

Today the site is registered as a floor monument D-1-7736-0148 "Banned castle stable consisting of a tower hill, outer bailey and associated farm yard of the late Middle Ages (" Burg Gelting "or" Lusthaus ")" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . The entire area is now built over with modern residential developments.

literature

  • Christian Later, Hans-Peter Volpert: The late medieval castle of Gelting . In: Department for Prehistory and Early History of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Society for Archeology in Bavaria (ed.): The archaeological year in Bavaria 2003 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1899-4 , p. 130 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Pliening (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 130 kB)