Marquartstein Castle

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Marquartstein Castle
View of the castle and castle chapel from the north-west

View of the castle and castle chapel from the north-west

Creation time : 1075
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Preserved essential parts
Place: Marquartstein
Geographical location 47 ° 45 '24.3 "  N , 12 ° 28' 8"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '24.3 "  N , 12 ° 28' 8"  E
Height: 575  m
Marquartstein Castle (Bavaria)
Marquartstein Castle

The castle Marquartstein is a medieval hilltop castle at 575  m above sea level. NN on a rock protruding into the valley of the Tiroler Achen in the Chiemgau in Marquartstein in the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein .

"Marquartstein Castle" after Michael Wening in the Topographia Bavariae around 1700

history

Marquartstein Castle was founded by the Chiemgaugrafen Marquart von Marquartstein in 1075. However , Marquart died shortly after his marriage to Adelheid von Lechsgemünd . His widow then married Ulrich von Passau from Diepolding . After his death in 1099, the castle came to the Spanheim family through the marriage of his daughter Uta to Engelbert II . The resulting county of Kraiburg -Marquartstein became part of the Ortenburg estates after his death .

After the Palatine line of the House of Ortenburg with Rapoto III. was extinct in 1248, the property fell to his son-in-law Hartmann I von Werdenberg . In 1259, he sold the county to the Wittelsbach Duke Heinrich XIII. from Lower Bavaria . Marquartstein was then the seat of a Bavarian nursing office until 1803 . In 1803 the Marquartstein nursing court was repealed and incorporated into the Traunstein regional court.

In 1857 the English-Irish writer Jemina Montgomery and her husband Cajetan von Tautphoeus bought the crumbling castle and had it renovated. From 1928 to 1958 the castle housed a country school home . The castle was acquired and renovated in 1987 by the art dealer Konrad O. Bernheimer from Munich , it is privately owned and cannot be visited. The castle has been for sale again since 2015.

Presumably, the Rettenburg and Streichenburg were pre-fortifications of Marquartstein Castle.

Castle chapel

St. Vitus Chapel

The St. Vitus castle chapel next to the castle was rebuilt two years later after a fire on February 13, 1843. The composer Richard Strauss and Pauline de Ahna married here on September 10, 1894 .

literature

  • Johann Josef Wagner: History of the royal Bavarian regional court Traunstein and its secular and ecclesiastical components . First division. (Reprint from Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History , Volume 26) Munich 1865, especially pp. 30–77 ( online )
  • Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 .

Web links

Commons : Marquartstein Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Marquartstein castle ruins on the website of the House of Bavarian History (plans, history, building history, existing buildings)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiemgau: Marquartstein Castle is for sale | https://www.immobilienreport.de/gewerbe/Burg-Marquartstein.php