Kaltenstein castle ruins

Kaltenstein castle ruins
	Entrance to the restored keep
Creation time :	1389
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Residential tower
Construction:	Quarry stone masonry
Place:	Röhrnbach - Kaltenstein
Geographical location	48 ° 43 '55 " N , 13 ° 32' 0.9" E Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '55 " N , 13 ° 32' 0.9" E
Height:	502 m above sea level NN

The Kaltenstein castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 502 m above sea level. NN high "Urleinsberg" above Kaltenstein , a district of the Röhrnbach community in the Freyung-Grafenau district in Bavaria .

history

In 1389, Zacharias Haderer and his sons Jobst and Lienhard received the right from the Diocese of Passau to build a "fortress" on the Urleinsberg to protect the Goldener Steiges . It is possible that there was already a castle on the mountain that belonged to the Urleinsberg family, it is said to have belonged to the Leoprechting rulership. In 1390, Haderer sold Kaltenstein Castle and the mountain to Bishop Georg von Hohenlohe from Passau , so it came into the possession of the Passau bishopric, and the prince-bishops then appointed carers to the castle. Well-known nurses from 1414 were the Häringer, the Leutfaringer, Gebinger, Tragreuter, the Westenkirchner, Sturmberger, Tengler and the Lampoldinger. In 1499, Christoph von Passau received Kaltenstein Castle for a loan of “three half hundred Rhenish guilders, along with all their affiliations, namely the court building, two fiefs , including tithe , fish water, wood, Wiesmad to the noble and loyal Georg Westenkirchen, his housewife Magdalena and their son Thomas lifelong ". In 1582 the castle came from Bishop Urban von Trennbach as a fief to Christoph Neuburger, the court chamber president of the bishopric. In 1595 Wolf von Buchleitner zu Satzbach acquired Kaltenstein, and in 1692 the barons of Sandizell inherited the complex. In 1699 the prince-bishops bought the castle back and used it as a hunting lodge. After the secularization of 1802/03, the castle came into the possession of the Bavarian State, which sold it to peasant hands in 1822, its new owners tore down the dilapidated buildings except for the residential tower and used the stones for the surrounding courtyards. In 1846 the art historian Bernhard Grueber described it as ruinous and dilapidated. Shortly afterwards, the local history association "Ritterbund von Kaltenstein" acquired the castle, which at least was able to keep the tower. This tower has been privately owned since 1966, it was repaired and expanded in 1975 and is inhabited. It cannot be visited.

The square residential tower made of quarry stone has a side length of 11 meters with a wall thickness of 1.8 meters. It is still around 15 meters high and has four storeys , and is now closed by a pyramid roof . The entrance is two meters high. In the lower area it dates from the Middle Ages, the structure above comes from the 16th century. In addition, there are remains of a curtain wall as well as of ramparts and moats .

Today is the ruin as a landscape formative monument D-2-72-141-32 "ruined castle, keep the 1389 built castle, about 15 meters high tower rest on a square plan with pyramidal roof, rubble masonry, restored since 1966 and developed for residential purposes", as well as ground monument D-2-7247-0034 “Archaeological findings and finds from the Middle Ages and early modern times in the area of the Kaltenstein castle ruins” recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

Isidor Mühlberger: Castles, palaces and ruins in the land around Ilz and Ohe . Verlag Duschl, Winzer 2007, ISBN 978-3-937438-71-9 , pp. 32-33.
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition. Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 315.
Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 66-67.

Web links

Commons : Burg Kaltenstein - Collection of images

Kaltenstein Castle on the homepage of the House of Bavarian History (plans, history, building history, building stock)
Entry on Kaltenstein Castle ruins in the private database “All Castles”.
Kaltenstein Castle at bayerischer-wald.de

Individual evidence

↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
↑ Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Baiern: or a complete alphabetical description of all cities, monasteries, castles, villages, spots, farms, mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, strange areas, etc., with a precise indication of their origin, former and current owners, location .... 2 . Verlag der Stettinschen Buchhandlung, 1796, p. 188 ( google.de [accessed on November 21, 2019]).
↑ Isidor Mühlberger: Castles, palaces and ruins in the land around Ilz and Ohe , p. 32
^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , p. 315
^ Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest , p. 67
↑ List of monuments for Röhrnbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)

[1] Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas

[2] Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Baiern: or a complete alphabetical description of all cities, monasteries, castles, villages, spots, farms, mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, strange areas, etc., with a precise indication of their origin, former and current owners, location .... 2 . Verlag der Stettinschen Buchhandlung, 1796, p. 188 ( google.de [accessed on November 21, 2019]).

[3] Isidor Mühlberger: Castles, palaces and ruins in the land around Ilz and Ohe , p. 32

[4] Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , p. 315

[5] Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest , p. 67

[6] List of monuments for Röhrnbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)