Mitterfels Castle

Mitterfels Castle
Castle complex from the east
Alternative name (s):	Mitterfels Castle
Creation time :	11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Preserved essential parts
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Mitterfels
Geographical location	48 ° 58 '7.6 "  N , 12 ° 40' 49.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '7.6 "  N , 12 ° 40' 49.3"  E
Height:	407  m above sea level NHN

The Burg Mitterfels , including Castle Mitterfels called, is a hilltop castle and today's city hall on a narrow 407  m above sea level. NHN high rock tongue above the Menach in Mitterfels (Burgstrasse 1–2) in the Straubing-Bogen district in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built at the end of the 11th century by the Counts of Bogen to secure their property. 1194 a castle captain "Bertholdus de Mitterfels" was mentioned. When the Counts of Bogen died out, the castle fell to the Wittelsbach family in 1242 . Between 1280 and 1799 they set up a ducal and then electoral care court here. Between 1799 and 1879 an electoral, then a royal district court was set up here, which was then converted into a Bavarian district court (1879–1973).

During the Thirty Years War (1623), Mitterfels Castle was destroyed by Swedish troops. In 1742 the castle was conquered again during the War of the Austrian Succession . In 1812, after the fortifications were demolished, an office building was built on the castle grounds.

Mitterfels Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

Remains of the castle wall of Mitterfels Castle

Mitterfels Castle was the seat of the Mitterfels Regional Court and , from 1879, the Mitterfels District Court . The former nursing home at Mitterfels Castle has housed the town hall of the market town of Mitterfels since 1973 and the seat of the Mitterfels administrative community since 1977 . The local history museum is housed in the former prison wing in the northwestern Zwinger. Concerts, traditional markets and open-air theater take place on the castle grounds.

description

After the engraving by Michael Wening , the electoral castle Mitterfelß was a mighty castle complex . A first gate led to a kennel or to a moat spanned by a bridge , which led to a gate tower . The outer wall was already protected with round towers . To the north-west of the castle you can see a pond, the castle chapel of St. George and economic buildings.

From the former medieval castle complex , the surrounding walls , the up to 20 meters deep moat that separates the complex from the village and is spanned by a 20 m long stone bridge built in 1791, a remnant of the main tower that collapsed in 1812, the prison wing of the 18th Century and the nursing home received.

literature

• Michael Weithmann: Castles and palaces in Lower Bavaria - guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley . Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2013, ISBN 978-3-936511-77-2 , pp. 157-158.
• Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , pp. 44-45.
• Karl Bosl (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 7: Bavaria (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 277). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .
• Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 26-27.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Mitterfels  - collection of images

• Castle ruins / Schloss Mitterfels on burgseite.de
• Entry on Mitterfels in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Mitterfels Castle on the bayerischer-wald.de site
• The history of Mitterfels Castle on the burgen-und-schloesser.net website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )