Peiting Castle

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Peiting Castle
Alternative name (s): Welfenburg
Creation time : around 1055
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall, ramparts and moats
Place: Peiting - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 48 '15.3 "  N , 10 ° 54' 56.2"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '15.3 "  N , 10 ° 54' 56.2"  E
Height: 816  m above sea level NHN
Peiting Castle (Bavaria)
Peiting Castle

The castle Peiting , even Guelph castle called, is a Outbound high medieval hilltop castle on the 816  m above sea level. NHN high "Schlossberg" south of the Lech northwest over the market Peiting in the municipality of the city of Schongau in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably built around 1055 by Duke Welf I and mentioned in 1101 as "nova arx Bitengoe". The first documentary mention of Peiting in 1055 as the "new" Peiting castle of the local Guelphs, the "Welfenburg" on the Schlossberg was the focus of all actions of the Lechrain Guelphs. These Guelphs also took part in crusades and founded the Rottenbuch and Steingaden monasteries . The Peitinger Guelph line died out in 1191. The last of this line was Welf VI. The other owners of the castle are the Staufers in 1191 , the Wittelsbachers in 1268 and Bertold von Seefeld in 1325 , who had received the castle as a pledge from Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria . The castle was probably damaged by an earthquake in 1348 and destroyed by the Swedes in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War . In 1806 the last remains ( tuff blocks ) of the castle complex were removed.

Ramps and surrounding moats are still preserved from the former castle complex . Today the Burgstall is a landmark ground monument D-1-8131-0053 "Burgstall of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age ('Schlossberg") as well as a settlement from the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the Urnfield Age, a settlement and burnt offering place from the Roman Empire and a multi-part ring wall Early History "recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

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. 317-318.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 267 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ a b Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 317.
  3. ^ Peiting and Schongau (Altenstadt) under the Welfs (1050–1200) , Historical Association of and for Upper Bavaria, Munich 1920, p. 4.
  4. ^ Peiting and Schongau (Altenstadt) under the Welfs (1050–1200) , Historical Association of and for Upper Bavaria, Munich 1920, p. 8 f.
  5. ↑ List of monuments for Schongau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 149 kB)