Lupburg Castle

Lupburg Castle
	Lupburg Castle
Creation time :	First mentioned in 1129
Castle type :	Höhenburg, location
Conservation status:	extensive wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Limestone cuboid, quarry stone
Place:	Lupburg
Geographical location	49 ° 9 '22.5 " N , 11 ° 45' 19" O Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '22.5 " N , 11 ° 45' 19" E

The Burg Lupburg is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a hill in the local situation of the market Lupburg in the Bavarian district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

history

The castle was probably built in the 12th century by the noble Ludewicus, whose liege was the Prince Burgrave of Regensburg, and was first mentioned in 1129. In 1299 the castle came to the Regensburg Monastery and in 1505 it became the property of Pfalz-Neuburg . From 1803 the castle was privately owned and fell into disrepair. The facility was extensively renovated in the 20th century.

960: Reichzga, Countess von Luppburg in the Reichsstift Niedermünster , Regensburg
1129: First documentary mention of a Ludewicus de Loupurg
until approx. 1200: construction of the castle with the "upper castle" on the rock, to the west of this the "lower castle"
1300: Konrad von Lupburg, brother of the bishop, bequeathed Lupburg to the diocese of Regensburg
1313: Extinction of the Lupburg family with Bishop Konrad V of Lupburg
until 1381: The castle was pledged to the Lords of Laaber, among others, and then to the Frauenberger brothers

1387: Acquisition by Duke Friedrich von Bayern-Landshut

1392: Transfer of ownership to Duke Johann von Bayern-Munich

description

The horseshoe-shaped castle complex with almost completely preserved Bering (12th century) made of limestone blocks in the lower area and quarry stones in the upper area had an upper and lower castle and still shows considerable remains of the buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries surrounding the castle courtyard. In the south of the complex there is a well-preserved residential building, in the west the palace on the lower floor and in the north a large barn and a preserved gate to the lower castle. In the upper, dilapidated area of the former core castle , the stump of a keep made of limestone blocks has been preserved on a rock .

literature

Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 91.

Web links

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