Siegenstein castle ruins

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Siegenstein castle ruins
Siegenstein castle ruins

Siegenstein castle ruins

Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Clericals, nobles, dukes
Construction: Granite cuboid, quarry stone, humpback cuboid
Place: Forest -Siegenstein
Geographical location 49 ° 5 '38 .6 "  N , 12 ° 21' 22.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5  '38.6 " N , 12 ° 21' 22.6"  E
Height: 546  m above sea level NHN
Siegenstein Castle Ruins (Bavaria)
Siegenstein castle ruins
Remains of the south wall
Castle chapel of St. George and Laurentius

The Siegenstein castle ruins are on the edge of the village of the same name, which today belongs to the municipality of Wald in the Cham district in Bavaria .

It is a trapezoidal hilltop castle from the 13th century, located on a granite dome that slopes steeply to the north in the Falkensteiner Vorwald .

Remnants of the wall in the south and in the northeast corner of the castle have been preserved from the former castle on the densely wooded castle hill, faced with granite ashlars , in places with humpback ashlars and rubble stone masonry . The former wall and ditch system and the remains of a fortress wall as well as the transition between the castle and the former outer bailey can also be seen .

From the 14th century the castle also included the Schönfeld district, two kilometers away, with a courtyard and the Romanesque church of St. Giles from the 12th century.

history

According to tradition, the origins of Siegenstein go back around 900 years. When Bavaria was divided in 1255, Siegenstein and the former Burgraviate of Regensburg fell to Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria . He gave it away, documented, with all rights in 1282 to the episcopal monastery of Regensburg under Bishop Heinrich II of Regensburg . Bishop Heinrich enfeoffs Konrad von Ehrenfels with Siegenstein Castle. In 1320 Dietrich von der Au came into possession of the fortress, followed in 1329 by Friedrich Hauzendorfer as carer. In 1353 Friedrich der Auer von Brennberg returned the Siegenstein property to the Regensburg Cathedral Chapter with all goods and the tithe. The bishops later pledged Siegenstein to the dukes of Bavaria , from where it subsequently fell to the Prackendorfer and Teuffel , but remained in the Prackendorfer's pledge until 1606. Bishop Wolfgang II then redeems the rule. As early as the beginning of the 16th century, the castle had become so dilapidated that the Prackenbachers moved to their headquarters in Wulkersdorf. In 1606 the complex was already in ruins.

Castle chapel

The castle chapel was built in the 13th century east of the castle hill in the area of ​​the so-called outer bailey, whose moat and wall system can still be seen today, and is dedicated to St. Lawrence and St. George . In 1353 it was added to the Frauenzell monastery , the last exterior renovation took place in 1974.

It is a plastered quarry stone building with Romanesque and Gothic elements, e.g. B. hewn corner cuboids and narrow lancet windows. Inside there is a semicircular apse with a chamfered choir arch , the nave has a wooden ceiling. The altar structure from the 17th century bears fluted columns and figures of Saints Hedwig and Laurentius . On the roof sits a shingle covered roof skylights from the 17th century.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog (work on the archeology of southern Germany; Volume 16). Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 263-267.
  • Georg Dehio (greeting), Jolanda Drexler (editing): Bavaria, Vol. 5: Regensburg and Upper Palatinate ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1991, p. 741, ISBN 3-422-03011-5 .

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