Wolfratshausen Castle

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Wolfratshausen Castle
Engraving of Wolfratshausen Castle by Michael Wening

Engraving of Wolfratshausen Castle by Michael Wening

Creation time : 1116
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Wolfratshausen - Weidach - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 55 '15.6 "  N , 11 ° 25' 12.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '15.6 "  N , 11 ° 25' 12.3"  E
Height: 610  m above sea level NHN
Wolfratshausen Castle (Bavaria)
Wolfratshausen Castle

The castle Wolfratshausen is an Outbound Spur castle at 610  m above sea level. NHN on a spur of the "Schlossberg" on the western steep bank of the Loisach above Weidach , a district of Wolfratshausen in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built in 1116 by the Counts of Wolfratshausen , a sideline of the Counts of Dießen-Andechser . Presumably Otto II von Dießen, Count von Wolfratshausen, who was wealthy in southern Germany and Tyrol, was the client.

After Heinrich I von Wolfratshausen , a son of Otto II , was elected Bishop of Regensburg in 1132 at the request of the Bavarian Duke Heinrich X. , the castle was burned down in the ensuing feud in 1133 and then rebuilt by 1145. According to the chronicler Otto von Freising , the castle was conquered by Duke Friedrich of Swabia in 1145 , but not destroyed.

After the Counts of Wolfratshausen died out, the castle fell back to the Counts of Andechs in 1158, who strengthened their castles against the Wittelsbachers in the following years.

In 1209 imperial ban was pronounced over the Count of Andechs and the castle was taken by the Wittelsbacher Ludwig the Kelheimer . In 1228 the castle had to be returned to the Counts of Andechs, who successfully repelled an attack by ducal troops in 1229. In 1243 the castle finally became Wittelsbach after the defeat of the last Andechs count, Otto VIII.

In 1315 the castle capitulated in a fratricidal battle between Duke Rudolf the Stammler and Ludwig, who later became Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian , and was captured. Duke Rudolf and his wife Mathilde were arrested at the castle.

From the 15th to the 16th century, the castle became the castle rebuilt and took in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War in the devastation Wolfratshauser Stockhausen by Swedish troops little damage.

In 1716, parts of the castle had to be evacuated due to disrepair. It then served as a powder magazine.

On April 17, 1734, the castle tower, filled with 350 hundredweight of powder, exploded by a lightning strike, and the rubble was hurled as far as Wolfratshausen, damaging the roof of the church. After 1734 the remains of the castle were removed and some of the stones were used to build the court theater in Munich .

description

The castle had a core and an outer bailey . The castle probably received its first stone walls between 1180 and 1209 and was a late Gothic assembly.

Remains of the neck ditch , section wall and ramparts with trenches in front of the former castle complex, to which a memorial stone from 1852 points out, are still preserved. A chapel of St. Nicholas is mentioned in the 14th century.

Location of the lost castle on the Schlossberg

present

In the meantime, the Burgverein Wolfratshausen eV is developing an adventure trail on the castle grounds.

literature

  • Michael Weithmann: Knights and Castles in Upper Bavaria - Forays into the medieval country between the Alps, Danube, Lech and Salzach . Verlagsanstalt Bayerland, Dachau 1999, ISBN 3-89251-276-0 , pp. 236-240.
  • Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, pp. 506-510.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 47 .
  • Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 18: Miesbach - Tegernsee - Bad Tölz - Wolfratshausen - Bad Aibling . Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.), Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1971, pp. 145–149.

Web links

Commons : Burg Wolfratshausen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.burgverein-wolfratshausen.de/pdf/bvw-af_satzung.pdf
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