Leonberg Castle (Marktl)

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Leonberg Castle
Creation time : 1150 first mention
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Marktl - Leonberg
Geographical location 48 ° 16 '44.5 "  N , 12 ° 48' 39.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '44.5 "  N , 12 ° 48' 39.7"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NHN
Leonberg Castle (Bavaria)
Leonberg Castle

The Castle Leonberg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the Innhochufer at 460  m above sea level. NHN about 425 meters southeast of the church in Leonberg , a district of the market town of Marktl in the Altötting district in Bavaria .

The castle was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Leonberg and was supposed to serve as a customs castle . In 1150 an "Aribo von Leumperge" is mentioned for the first time and in 1170 as the owner, Duke Heinrich the Lion . After 1180 the castle was owned by Count Berengar von Altendorf as a Wittelsbach fief . The castle was abandoned around 1480 to 1500 and the St. Sebastian castle chapel was torn down in 1885 .

Nothing has survived from the former castle complex , the castle square has partially collapsed into the Inn.

literature

  • Michael W. Weithmann, District of Upper Bavaria (ed.): Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Munich 1995, pp. 261-263.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 37 .
  • Josef Rosenegger, Lore Sommerauer: Dilapidated castles between Inn and Salzach . Pannonia Verlag, Freilassing 1973, ISBN 3-7897-0028-2 , pp. 28-29.

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