Grünbach Castle

Grünbach Castle
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Bockhorn - Grünbach
Geographical location	48 ° 19 '49.9 "  N , 12 ° 0' 18.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '49.9 "  N , 12 ° 0' 18.8"  E
Height:	480  m above sea level NN

The Castle Green Brook is an Outbound high medieval hilltop castle at 480  m above sea level. NN in flat promontory in Castle Park East next to the newer castle Grünbach in the district Gruenbach the municipality of Bockhorn in the district of Erding in Bavaria .

Local nobility was named with Pern de [von] Groninpach as early as 1075, the castle was built in the 12th century by the Lords of Grünbach. The Wittelsbachers were named as other owners around 1250 , the Lords of Fraunberg in the 14th century and the Lords of Preysing-Moos in 1581 . The castle was demolished by them in the same year and the Sedlhof underneath was expanded into the Grünbach Castle .

Only one tower hill has survived from the former castle complex, which can also be clearly seen on the engraving by Michael Wening . Today, the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-7638-0028 "Castle stables of the high and late Middle Ages (" Burg Grünbach ") and abandoned chapel of the early modern era" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

• 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. 147–148.

Web links

• Entry on Grünbach Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 147 f.
3. ↑ List of monuments for Bockhorn (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 135 kB)