Traunstein Castle

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Traunstein Castle
Creation time : Late 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Traunstein
Geographical location 47 ° 52 '5.9 "  N , 12 ° 39' 1.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '5.9 "  N , 12 ° 39' 1.7"  E
Height: 590  m above sea level NN
Traunstein Castle (Bavaria)
Traunstein Castle

The castle Traunstein is a Outbound Spur castle on a spur at 590  m above sea level. NN above the Traun on the southeast side of the Traunstein old town (Mittlere Hofgasse 11) in the district of Traunstein in Bavaria .

The castle was built by the mentioned first time 1120 Lords of Truna (= Traun) towards the end of the 12th century to secure an important bridge over the Traun and was in 1245 named "Trauwenstein" as a court of the monastery Baumburg and 1361 documented as "Veste " called. The archbishopric of Salzburg and the Duchy of Bavaria in 1275 (both maintained a maintenance office at the castle ) are named as other owners . In the middle of the 13th century the castle complex was expanded and received u. a. a curtain wall . After the castle had lost its importance in the 16th century, the Counts of Törring acquired the rule in 1618 and expanded the castle.

In the course of the Spanish War of Succession , the castle burned down in a city fire in 1704 and was demolished. After that, the ruin was used as a quarry to rebuild the city. In 2006 excavations took place on the castle grounds , after which the castle courtyard was built over.

The castle area was 3200 square meters and had no special economic areas, which suggests that the castle primarily served to represent the ducal claim to power over the city. During the excavations in 2006, the foundations of a tower with an area of ​​around 11 by 11 meters were excavated. Today the Burgstall is almost completely overbuilt and recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as ground monument D-1-8141-0127 "Underground medieval and early modern findings and finds in the area of ​​the former Traunstein Castle and its predecessor buildings" .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: The castles and palaces in the Traunstein district . In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces eV (Hrsg.): Castles in the Alpine region . From the series: Research on castles and palaces, Volume 14. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-760-9 , p. 78.
  • Jochen Scherbaum: Excavations in the Traunstein Fortress . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria, 2006 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, p. 154 ff.
  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 18: Miesbach, Tegernsee, Bad Tölz, Wolfratshausen, Bad Aibling . 2nd Edition. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1971, pp. 132-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Traunstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 167 kB)