Kollnburg castle ruins

Kollnburg castle ruins
	Kollnburg castle ruins - view of the round keep
Creation time :	First mentioned in 1153
Castle type :	Höhenburg, location
Conservation status:	Keep
Standing position :	Counts, nobles
Place:	Kollnburg
Geographical location	49 ° 2 '51.6 " N , 12 ° 51' 36.9" E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '51.6 " N , 12 ° 51' 36.9" E
Height:	660 m above sea level NHN

The Kollnburg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at about 660 m above sea level. NHN west of the parish church of the community of Kollnburg in the district of Regen in Bavaria .

history

It is uncertain whether the castle was built by the Lords of Kalmberg in the 11th century. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1153 as "Chalnberch" and was later owned by the Lords of Nussberg ("de Nuzbach 1125"), who were ministerials of the Counts of Bogen , from 1363 to 1472 .

During the uprising of the Bavarian Forest Knights against the policy of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria , the “ Böckler War ”, from 1468 to 1469, the castle was burned down and, after being rebuilt, destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . In the 18th century, the castle, which had fallen into disrepair, was abandoned. Until 1816 the Hofmark Kollnburg was a lordly knight man's fief under changing owners.

In 1817 the entire property was auctioned. In 1835 the brewer Josef Rockinger bought the castle. Remnants of the lower part were demolished and used for a rectory building.

On November 11, 1895, the Viechtach Forest Association acquired the castle tower, and in 1912 the first renovation took place. The 11 meter high tower was converted into a lookout tower . The ruin is still owned by the Viechtach section of the Bavarian Forest Association .

Of the former small castle complex , only the round keep with a diameter of 8.2 meters and a wall thickness of two meters, the foundation walls of the palace and the 17-meter-deep castle fountain remain. Presumably the remains of the castle wall are built into the surrounding houses.

literature

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 .
Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 114-115.
Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , p. 73.

Web links

Commons : Kollnburg castle ruins - collection of images

Kollnberg castle ruins on the "House of Bavarian History" page (with floor plan)
Kollnburg Castle. burgenwelt.de
Entry on Kollnburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".