Graisbach Castle

Graisbach Castle
Graisbach Castle in the 16th century, drawing by Philipp Apian
Creation time :	around 1130
Castle type :	Höhenburg, location
Conservation status:	significant remains of the wall, castle chapel
Standing position :	Nobles, counts
Place:	Marxheim - Graisbach
Geographical location	48 ° 44 '59.2 "  N , 10 ° 53' 41.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '59.2 "  N , 10 ° 53' 41.2"  E
Height:	430  m above sea level NHN

The castle Graisbach is the ruins of a hilltop castle on an approximately 430-meter-high peak, the "Schlossberg", on the northern edge of the district Graisbach the municipality Marxheim in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably built around 1130 by the Lords of Graisbach and came to the Counts of Lechsgemünd in the 13th century after their ancestral seat, Burg Lechsend at the Lech estuary near Marxheim, was destroyed by Regensburg merchants in 1248 . From then on they called themselves "Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach". After the last descendant of the Lechsgemünd family with Gebhard III in 1327 . von Graisbach Bishop von Eichstätt had died, the property fell to the Wittelsbach family and became the administrative seat for the ducal officials.

The castle was expanded in the 13th and 14th centuries and partially destroyed in the 15th century. In 1523 the seat of the district court was moved from Graisbach to Monheim . In the 18th century the castle was demolished and used as a quarry.

description

From the former castle complex with core and outer bailey , there are still significant remains of the wall with the castle gate, some of which are now built with houses, and the Romanesque castle chapel of St. Pankratius from the 12th century. In the meantime owned by the Donau-Ries district, the castle was leased under heritable building rights in 2005 to a private individual who lives there. In 2009 there was a controversy with the community about alleged renovations, and the collapse of a cellar vault was also recorded that year.

literature

• Lexikon von Baiern I , Ulm 1796 published by the Stettinische Buchhandlung Verlag, pages 709–710
• Wilfried Sponsel, Hartmut Steger: Past castles and mansions. A search for traces in the view of the giant . Typesetting and graphics partner, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-935438-27-3 , pp. 182-189.
• Karl Bosl (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 7: Bavaria (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 277). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 221.

Web links

• Entry on Graisbach in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Burgruine Graisbach castles in Bavaria
• Graisbach Castle at burgenwelt.de
• Historical reconstruction drawing at burgrebaus.de
• Historical lexicon of Bavaria: Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach
• Manfred Hiebl: Genealogy of the counts of Lechsgemünd
• Manfred Hiebl: FAMILY OF THE COUNT OF GRAISBACH-LECHSGEMÜND

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://burgseite.de/html/graisbach.html Burgruine Graisbach