Wolfshausen Castle

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Wolfshausen Castle
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Elsendorf
Geographical location 48 ° 40 '58.5 "  N , 11 ° 53' 5.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '58.5 "  N , 11 ° 53' 5.2"  E
Height: 469  m above sea level NHN
Wolfshausen Castle (Bavaria)
Wolfshausen Castle

The castle Wolfhausen is an Outbound medieval castle in the district Wolfshausen the community Elsendorf in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim of Bavaria . The facility was located 110 m southwest of the Catholic chapel of St. Nikolaus von Elsendorf.

description

The castle complex was in the southern part of Wolfshausen. Formerly there was an island with dimensions of 75 × 55 m in a moat with a side length of approx. 75 m, on which was the Burgplatz. The trench was fed by the Allakofer Bach. One possible reason for the construction of the plant was the route leading from Regensburg via Langquaid to Mainburg . The important route from Landshut to Pförring also ran 500 m north of the castle .

history

The presumably noble local nobleman Asgirich de Wolfihusin and his son are mentioned in 1089 as witnesses in a tradition of the Weltenburg monastery . It is not certain whether Wolfshausen Castle existed back then. But in 1328, when Wolfhart and Gebhart von Wolfshausen sold a peculiar Hube zu Haunsbach to Albrecht von Meilenhofen, the castle will certainly have already been built. The two Wolfshausen residents reappear in 1367 when this Hube was transferred to the Münchsmünster monastery , after which this family should have died out.

After the Wolfshausen family died out, the castle and possessions came to the Saller von Meilenhofen family . In 1393 Leonhard der Saller von Meilenhofen first documents it. Afterwards his sons Peter and Ulrich appear in 1434 when the property is being divided. Wolfshausen has been a Hofmark since 1434 . Peter von Meilenhofen († 1435) was then referred to as the nurse of Neueglofsheim , in 1435 he was the nurse of Kelheim . Ulrich von Meilenhofen was the keeper of Altmannstein in 1438 and then until 1452 the keeper of Neustadt an der Donau . He apparently died without an heir, and Wolfshausen passed to his brother Konrad in 1452. In the event of an inheritance split between Konrad's sons Georg and Leonhard in 1466, Wolfshausen came to Leonhard († 1492) with further possessions. This is attested in 1468 as the nurse of Hemau and 1470 as the nurse of Mainburg and in the same year as the nurse of Abbach . Leonhard von Saller's sons, Leonhard and Sebastien, both live in Neustadt and no longer call themselves Wolfshausen or Meilenhofen. Sebastian becomes Wolfshausen's heir and dies without any descendants. Then Wolfshausen seems to have come to the Luchows, because on June 20, 1526, Barbara Mistelbach von Mistelbach, nee. Luchow, part of the Sallen inheritance to Gabriel Blass and his wife, also born Luchow. On the same day, this couple acquired another part of the Sallen property from the children of the late Alexander von Luchow. A Cäcilia Gneysen related to the Sallern family sells the last piece of the Sallern legacy to Dominikus Stocker from Innsbruck in 1527 .

The other owners of Wolfshausen are 1528 Thurn zu Neupern, 1531 Thomann Purcktstaler von Landshut, 1540 Sebastian von Marolting zu Hornbach, 1652 the Jesuit college Landshut and then from 1774 the St. Sebastian Abbey in Ebersberg . Wolfshausen belonged to the Order of Malta until 1808 .

Already in 1616 and also in 1737 it was said, “Wolfshaußen, ein Hoffmark, darbej a collapsed castle”, so the castle had already gone down at the beginning of the 17th century.

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. 265–266.

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