Haibach castle ruins

Haibach castle ruins
	View of the Haibach castle ruins
Alternative name (s):	Haibach Castle
Creation time :	probably around 1100
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Ruin, remains of the wall
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Haibach- Hofberg
Geographical location	49 ° 1 '11.1 " N , 12 ° 42' 41.6" E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '11.1 " N , 12 ° 42' 41.6" E
Height:	520.6 m above sea level NN

The Haibach castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle on the 520 meter high "Hofberg" in the Hofberg district in the Lower Bavarian municipality of Haibach in the Straubing-Bogen district in Bavaria .

history

The castle is named after the knight dynasty of the Haybecken, later Haibeck, who were ministerials to the Counts of Bogen .

Around 1100 a landlord von Haybach is mentioned in the memorial book of the Oberalteich monastery and in 1320 Dietrich Haibeck appears in a document together with the abbot of the Oberalteich monastery in connection with the construction of the cathedral in Regensburg . Gozwin von Haybach in 1125 and Albert von Haybach in 1217 , who took part in the Fifth Crusade to the Holy Land , and in 1330 Dietrich Ritter zu Haybach , judge in Cham , caretaker at the Mitterfels district court , vice of the Duke of Straubing and founder of the church in Elisabethszell, are named. In 1348 Dietrich's sons Albrecht, Dietrich and Hans acquired Schloss and Hofmark Wiesenfelden .

In 1494 the knight dynasty of the Hay basins at Haybach and Wiesenfelden went out. Their successors were the Notthracht in 1515 , later the Ossinger and the Leoprechtinger . The place was part of the Electorate of Bavaria and formed a closed Hofmark, whose seat was Haibach.

In 1633/34 the castle was destroyed by Swedish troops in the course of the Thirty Years' War and in 1691 came into the possession of the imperial nobles von Ossing zu Haibach, of whose line Gundacker Ossinger was the last to die in 1797. From the last noble owner, Wilhelm von Leoprechting , who bought the facility in 1816, the castle and the Haibach and Herrnfehlburg court brands went to the Bavarian state, which sold the property to the Haibach farmer and cattle dealer Martin Feldmayer in 1845. After that, the facility quickly deteriorated.

Haibach Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

Haibach Castle then and now

As you can see on the engraving by Michael Wening , Haibach was a three-storey stone building with a crippled hipped roof . Dormers can be seen in the roof . A large stone portal led into the castle. The castle was surrounded by a low wall, a gate with a gatehouse led through the wall. The forecourt was designed with a baroque garden.

In 1986 the "Friends of the Castle Preservation Association" was founded, which renovated the remains of the castle until 1990, of which impressive remains of the wall can still be seen today. Parts of the castle-like residential building from the early 18th century have been preserved in the middle of the courtyard . The stable building has been used as a museum since 2005.

literature

Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Friedrich Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , pp. 46–47.
Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , p. 27.

Web links

Commons : Burg Haibach - Collection of images, videos and audio files