Glaneck Castle

Glaneck Castle
Petersberg Basilica (south-east view)
Alternative name (s):	Glonnek, Glonneck
Creation time :	probably 11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg ( Spornburg )
Conservation status:	Burgstall, Church of St. Peter and Paul
Place:	Erdweg - Eisenhofen - "Petersberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 20 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 17' 45.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 17' 45.2"  E
Height:	500  m above sea level NHN

The castle Glaneck even Glonnek called, is a Outbound Spur castle on a 500  m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the Petersberg above the Glonn at the site of the Church of St. Peter and Paul west of the Eisenhofen district of the Erdweg community in the Dachau district in Bavaria .

history

As the owner of probably in the 11th century castle built on the fork of the old Roman road from Augsburg to Freising which are counts of Scheyern with Count Otto I of Scheyern, and the presentation counts of Lech Gemünd . At the beginning of the 12th century, the Counts Otto III. and his relative Berthold von Burgeck opened the castle and donated it to the Benedictine order . The two donors also donate a large part of their goods to the monastery. In 1104 a convent of Hirsau monks from Bayrischzell via Fischbachau moved into the castle stables . In place of the "Scheyernburg" a monastery with a small Georgskirche was built. In 1107 it was converted into the Petersberg Monastery . In 1123 after only 16 years the monastery was abandoned by the young monks and moved to Scheyern . Today the castle site with the still clearly recognizable neck ditch in the west is designated as a ground monument . The church of St. Peter and Paul is located on the south side of the former castle.

See also : History of St. Peter and Paul

literature

• Heiner Hofmann: The foundation of the Eisenhofen-Scheyern monastery. An example of Wittelsbach's territorial policy. In: Amperland , 11th year, 1975, pp. 44–48, pp. 64–66.
• Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 62 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgitta Unger-Richter: Basilica on the Petersberg . In: Basilica on the Petersberg near Dachau . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, p. 4.
2. ↑ Hans Schertl: Basilica Peter and Paul on the Petersberg

Web links

• Glonnek Castle (Glaneck) at burgendaten.de