Wöhr Castle

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Wöhr Castle
Castle stable of Castle Wöhr in the nature reserve Goldau

Castle stable of Castle Wöhr in the nature reserve Goldau

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, wall and moat remains
Place: Wöhr - Neustadt an der Donau
Geographical location 48 ° 48 '36.7 "  N , 11 ° 44' 48.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '36.7 "  N , 11 ° 44' 48.4"  E
Height: 469  m above sea level NHN
Wöhr Castle (Bavaria)
Wöhr Castle

The castle Wöhr , as Bürg , bags Castle , Birg and Schlössl called, is a Outbound lowland castle in the district Wöhr the Lower Bavarian town of Neustadt an der Donau in Kelheim of Bavaria .

location

The Burgstall is located approx. 300 m south of the western end of Wöhr and south of the B 299 and north of an arm of the Danube that used to flow here . The castle probably served to protect a nearby Danube crossing, because it was located at the intersection of the former Nibelungenstrasse and a road going west from Regensburg . Presumably these streets were relocated because of the Danube incursions and the new street intersection was then at Trephenau Castle and then in Neustadt an der Donau.

description

The Burgplatz consists of an oval dome with a maximum height of 2 m. The grassy castle area has a size of approx. 62 × 55 m. In the south and south-east, the flat-vaulted Burgstall leans against the remains of a no longer existing arm of the Danube, today's Goldauseen . To the west of this are the remains of a wall-ditch system, namely an approximately 2 m wide moat , while the other sides of the castle stables are enclosed by a soil hollow up to 7 m wide. In the second half of the 19th century, remains of the wall are said to have existed at a significant height, nothing of which could be seen at the beginning of the 20th century. Originally the complex consisted of a core castle with an outer castle , which were separated from each other by ditches and a wall.

Location of Wöhr Castle

history

A Heinrich de Werth is first mentioned in a document in 1099; However, it is not certain whether it came from this place Wöhr or another Wöhr ( e.g. Ritterswörth or the places Niederwöhr and Mitterwöhr near Münchsmünster ). According to records of the Niederaltaich monastery , however, the local Birg was the ancestral seat of a noble family, one of whom Otto liber de Werde apud Heiligenstat was one of the greats of the country, whose inheritance fell to the Wittelsbach Duke Ludwig der Kelheimer or his son Otto . According to the genealogy of the Lords of Wöhr compiled by Karl Tyroller , these have appeared since the 11th century, with Gottfried I. von Wöhr, attested in 1118, being regarded as the builder of the castle. His successor Gottfried II had four sons, with whom this family died out. Of these, Konrad von Wöhr was last mentioned in 1193 as Vogt of Weltenburg Abbey; his brother Otto is also named as Vogt von Weltenburg in 1217, Gottfried is Bamberg canon in 1215 and Ulrich von Wöhr is still archdeacon in the diocese of Regensburg in 1227 . Her sister Bertha von Wöhr was married to Wernher IV von Laber, but the inheritance did not go to the Lords of Laaber , but they only received the bailiwick of the Weltenburg monastery. Castle and ownership of the Lords of Wöhr went to the Wittelsbachers, who made it into the ampte to Become ; but already in the second duke's surbar , which was created between 1279 and 1284, this no longer exists, the administration of the goods was incorporated into the Vohburg office.

With the extinction of the von Wöhr family in 1217 and the cessation of the function of the castle to monitor the streets, it was probably given up at the latest with the relocation of the official residence to Vohburg an der Donau and left to decay.

literature

  • Johann Auer: Fortifications and castles in the Kelheim district from the Neolithic to the late Middle Ages. Verlag der Weltenburger Akademie Aventinum eV, Abensberg 2008, pp. 273–275.

Web links

Commons : Burg Wöhr (Neustadt an der Donau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files