Kirnstein Castle

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Kirnstein Castle
Slightly secured wall remnants at the south-east corner of the ruin (September 2013)

Slightly secured wall remnants at the south-east corner of the ruin (September 2013)

Creation time : First half of the 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Construction: Quarry stone masonry with corner blocks
Place: Flintsbach am Inn -Kirnstein
Geographical location 47 ° 41 '29 "  N , 12 ° 9' 14"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '29 "  N , 12 ° 9' 14"  E
Height: 501  m above sea level NHN
Kirnstein Castle (Bavaria)
Kirnstein Castle

Kirnstein Castle is the ruin of a spur castle at 520  m above sea level. NHN . The castle is located on the eastern slope of the Wildbarrens in the Inn Valley in the area of ​​today's municipality of Flintsbach am Inn in the Rosenheim district in Bavaria .

history

Kirnstein Castle was built in the 12th century by the once powerful lords of Neuburg-Falkenstein as a ministerial seat in the Inn Valley. Around 1130, a "Leoprant de Churne" was named as a witness for Count Wolfger von Falkenstein. The castle was located directly on the old road leading through the narrowed Inn valley and controlled it. After the fall of the Falkensteiners, it came into the possession of the Wittelsbach family in 1247 . This was followed by further changes of ownership, in 1361 the castle came to the Lords of Preysing zu Wolnzach , in 1400 to Seitz von Laimering and in 1405 to the Dukes of Bavaria-Ingolstadt .

The first destruction took place during the war in the course of the division of Bavaria in 1392 between the dukes Ernst of Munich and Heinrich the Rich of Landshut on the one hand, and Duke Ludwig im Bart on the other hand around 1430, it was destroyed by fire. The castle was then rebuilt by the dukes of Bavaria-Landshut and given to Erasmus Waltenhofer as a fief . A second and final destruction took place in the Bavarian War in 1504.

In 1568 the cartographer Philipp Apian described it in his Bavarian Landtafen as "arx in monte sita", that is, a castle in the mountains, in 1585 it was described by Wiguleus Hund in the Bavarian family register as a "broken castle". The western wall of the ruin fell victim to a storm in 2002.

description

Image 3: Burgtor (September 2012)
Fig. 2: Corner masonry of the wall square (September 2012)

The castle ruins stand on a mountain spur protruding from the wild bar to the east, just a few meters above the valley floor. The castle consisted of a square wall measuring 18 by 16 meters, the remains of which still tower about eight meters. It was built from rubble stones with corner blocks (Fig. 2), the wall thickness was 1.2 meters. The entrance was on the north side, a brick archway has been preserved there, but only a small part of it protrudes from the ground (Fig. 3). Is located on the southeast corner of this wall Geviertes a five meters long and two meters outstanding projection of the building, possibly due to the south side of Geviertes a slightly protruding Palas , the remaining walls formed a courtyard. A large part of the masonry dates back to the time it was rebuilt after it was destroyed around 1430.

The west side was protected by a neck ditch to the steeply rising mountain slope of the wild bar . On the east side of the castle hill there is a terrace a few meters below, which, in addition to the height difference , was separated from the main castle by a ditch with an outer wall. The outer bailey was presumably on top of it .

literature

  • Michael Weithmann: Knights and Castles in Upper Bavaria - Forays into the medieval country between the Alps, Danube, Lech and Salzach . Verlagsanstalt Bayerland, Dachau 1999, ISBN 3-89251-276-0 , pp. 147–148.
  • 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. 226, 227.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 223-224 .
  • Sebastian Dachauer : On the history of the church at Petersberge and the castles Falkenstein , Kirnstein and Auerburg . In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History , Volume 2, Munich 1840, pp. 356-401 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Kirnstein castle ruins  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Werner Meyer: Burgen in Oberbayern , p. 223 f.
  2. Michael Weithmann: Knights and Castles in Upper Bavaria - Forays into the medieval country between the Alps, Danube, Lech and Salzach , p. 147 f.