Kopfsburg Castle

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Kopfsburg Castle
Remnants of the site of the lost Kopfsburg Castle

Remnants of the site of the lost Kopfsburg Castle

Alternative name (s): Kopfsburg Castle
Creation time : mentioned around 1080
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, mound of earth, remains of a moat
Place: Lengdorf - Kopfsburg
Geographical location 48 ° 15 '10.1 "  N , 12 ° 4' 58.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '10.1 "  N , 12 ° 4' 58.9"  E
Kopfsburg Castle (Bavaria)
Kopfsburg Castle

The Kopfsburg Castle , which later became Kopfsburg Castle , was originally a medieval hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) and was later converted into a castle . The abandoned castle or palace stood in the area of ​​Schlossstrasse on a moderate ridge immediately southeast of Kopfsburg , a district of the municipality of Lengdorf in the Erding district in Bavaria .

history

Around 1080 a "Witilo Chopf zu Chopfsburg" is mentioned, probably related to the Fraunbergers . They were the local nobility of the village until the second half of the 12th century. From 1180/1197 the Lords of Preysing are named as owners. In 1405 their castle collapsed, whereupon they built a new building on the mound of earth (tower mound) on the south-eastern edge of the village, surrounded by a moat . A St. George's Chapel was first mentioned in 1524.

The castle was damaged by the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War in 1632 or 1646 , and in 1682 it passed to the Principality of Freising . In 1698, Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing had the palace renovated in the Baroque style . After the secularization , the castle was demolished in 1814 together with the St. George's Chapel.

description

The castle stood on a north-facing and only moderately high ridge and was probably built in three main construction phases. Originally built as a high medieval tower hill castle with a round moat, a square residential tower was built on the tower hill during the late Middle Ages , and baroque designs were added during the modern era .

On the etching by Michael Wening the umzogene of a retaining wall tower hill with the surrounding moat and the three-storey residential tower with rich façade and a tower or roof skylights with double onion dome seen.

Today only a drained and tree-covered moat and the mound remain. The site is now protected as a ground monument number D-1-7738-0010: Castle stables of the Middle Ages and the early modern times ("Kopfsburg") with abandoned farm yard and former gardens .

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. 239–241.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 112 .

Web links

  • Entry on Kopfsburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ^ Source history: Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 239 f.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Lengdorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 130 kB)