Windberg Castle

Windberg Castle
Creation time :	High Middle Ages
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, built over
Place:	Windberg
Geographical location	48 ° 56 '22.5 "  N , 12 ° 44' 50.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '22.5 "  N , 12 ° 44' 50.4"  E
Height:	419  m above sea level NN

The castle Windberg is an Outbound high medieval hilltop castle on 419  m above sea level. NN above the valley of the Bogenbach in Windberg in the Straubing-Bogen district in Bavaria .

The castle was the original seat of the Counts of Bogen and was demolished in 1130. In 1142, Count Albert I von Bogen founded the Windberg Monastery , an abbey of the Premonstratensian Order , on the castle grounds with the help of Bishop Otto I von Bamberg . The Counts of Windberg-Bogen died out in 1242.

The foundation walls of the castle can still be found in the monastery area.

literature

• Karl Böhm, Bernhard Ernst, Gwendolyn Schmidt: Windberg - From the noble residence to the Premonstratensian monastery . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria , 2001 . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Society for Archeology in Bavaria (ed.), Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, p. 134 ff.

Web links

• Entry on Burg Windberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".