Pienzenau Castle

Pienzenau Castle
Creation time :	Probably 11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, traces of terrain
Place:	Weyarn -Großpienzenau- "Am Ortgraben"
Geographical location	47 ° 49 '30.6 "  N , 11 ° 49' 11.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '30.6 "  N , 11 ° 49' 11.1"  E
Height:	690  m above sea level NHN

The Castle Pienzenau is a Outbound High Middle Spur castle on 690  m above sea level. NHN on the immediate edge of the slope to Schlierach about 650 meters southwest of the center of Großpienzenau, a district of the municipality Weyarn in the Miesbach district in Bavaria .

Presumably the castle was built in the 11th century by the lords of Pienzenau as the subsequent ancestral seat on the tower hill castle at the Kistler farmers .

Traces of the terrain still bear witness to the former castle complex, which was separated from the high bank of the Schlierach by a high inner and two flatter outer wall-ditch systems. Today the place is registered as a ground monument D-1-8136-0033 "Castle stables of the Middle Ages and the early modern times (" Burg Pienzenau ")" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

• Michael W. Weithmann, District of Upper Bavaria (ed.): Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Munich 1995, pp. 322-324.
• Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke (arr.): Upper Bavaria . Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .

Web links

• Entry on Pienzenau (Am Ortgraben) in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Weyarn (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 148 kB)