Konstein castle ruins

Konstein castle ruins
	The castle ruins of Konstein around 1835 (lithograph)
Creation time :	first mentioned in 1256
Castle type :	Höhenburg, rocky location
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Nobility, counts
Place:	Wellheim - Konstein
Geographical location	48 ° 49 '28.5 " N , 11 ° 4' 16.9" E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '28.5 " N , 11 ° 4' 16.9" E
Height:	427 m above sea level NHN

The Konstein castle ruins are the ruins of a rock castle on the 427 m high rock cone "Chunstein or Chunenstein" in the Konstein district of the municipality of Wellheim in the Eichstätt district in Bavaria .

Floor plan of Konstein Castle

history

The name of the castle goes back to 1186 first mentioned noble free Kuno von Stein.

The castle is mentioned as such for the first time in 1256 and served to protect the eastern border of the county of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach opposite the county of Hirschberg . In 1289 a knight Heinrich von Muhr von Chunenstein is the castle owner and fiefdom holder . He had other possessions, because in 1302 he sold “Breid” (= Preith ) to the Eichstätter Bishop Konrad II. In 1329 a document bears the witness signature of Ulrich von Muor, called von Kunstein. In 1345 the lord of Konstein, the knight Ulrich Willprant von Parkstein and zu Kösching , received the privilege of high jurisdiction from Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian as well as the fortification right for the place, of which no use was made, and in 1347 also the wild ban . His widow married Kuno von Laiming , who in 1351 assigned the castle to the Bavarian dukes. In the course of compensation negotiations, Burkhard von Seckendorff received half of the castle and town in 1362 . His daughter, married to the nobleman Eberhard Schenk von Rosenberg, sold the entire property to the dukes of Bavaria in 1385, who in turn pledged it to Hans Hausner (until 1457).

In the Landshut War of Succession (1503–1505) Konstein was occupied by federal troops for half a year, then was taken by the Count Palatine Ruprecht , who destroyed the castle in 1505. In 1506 the castle was given to the kitchen clerk of the Bavarian Duke Friedrich, Willpold Pöll, for merit. Rebuilt in 1515, the Peasants' War caused new damage in 1525; only after 1540 was the castle rebuilt by the new owner, Count Palatine Ottheinrich .

During the Thirty Years' War , Konstein was plundered several times, the castle became uninhabitable and from then on only served as a quarry. Today it has been torn down except for the remains of the ring wall and the restored arched castle gate. The moat is partially covered with slag from the glassworks.

In 1795, the castle ruins, along with the gardens, brewery and glassworks, were sold to the Öttingisch-Spielberg councilor Johann Edmund von Ruösch , who in 1802 sold the property to Count Jakob von Pestalozza , who in turn sold it to Count August von Reisach zu Kempten in 1810 . 1813, most of this came to the possession Konsteiner Brauer Zinsmeister, of the bailey used as Bräukeller.

description

Only a few remains of the wall remain from the former three-storey, tower-like core castle . The outer bailey at the north foot of the rock shows a three to four meter high piece of the west ring , a cellar vault and, in the east, the restored round arched castle gate and another barrel vaulted cellar. The moat is built over. The outlying castle chapel of St. Giles, donated in 1338 by the knight Ulrich Wilbrant, was expanded into a church in the 16th century and has served as the Apostle Church of the Protestant community since 1960. There is an information board at the castle site.

literature

Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 91 .
Karl Zecherle (Red.): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB 944206697 , p. 48-49 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Konstein - collection of images

Konstein castle ruins at "burgenwelt.de"