Laaber castle ruins

Laaber castle ruins
	Castle ruins and place from Martinsberg
Creation time :	1100 to 1200
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Extensive wall remains
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Humpback cuboid
Place:	Laaber
Geographical location	49 ° 3 '57.3 " N , 11 ° 53' 11.9" E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '57.3 " N , 11 ° 53' 11.9" E

The Laaber castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle on a rock above the center of the Laaber market in the Regensburg district in Bavaria .

Coat of arms of the Lords of Laaber based on Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book

history

The castle was built at the end of the 12th century by the lords of Laaber , who were first mentioned in a document in connection with the founding of the Reichenbach monastery in 1118, to control the river crossings and the "Königsstraße" in the Labertal on behalf of the Staufer Emperor Friedrich II. , Which brought the knights, who also owned Prunn Castle and Breitenegg Castle , an important position of power.

In 1367 Hadamar IV was von Laaber, son of the famous minstrel Hadamar III. von Laber , mayor of the imperial city of Regensburg and after resigning from office he lived in constant feud with the city, which prompted the city to attack and damage Laaber Castle in 1389.

After the lords of Laaber got into trouble in the 15th century, the castle was sold to the Wittelsbach family , but was returned to Ulrich von Laaber in 1466 and, after the Laaber family died out, came to the Duchy of Bavaria-Landshut and in 1505 to the Duchy Pfalz-Neuburg , which maintained a maintenance office at the castle . In 1597 the castle was expanded like a castle , the towers were demolished in 1720 and from 1805, owned by the municipality, the castle fell into disrepair in the 19th century.

investment

The hilltop castle above the village of Laaber

The castle complex was separated from the ridge by a deep neck moat , which in the Middle Ages had a wooden bridge with a drawbridge , protected by a semicircular tower followed by a gate with a Gothic gate . The second gate and the third gate, which lead through a several meter thick curtain wall , show a mighty humpback blockwork .

The mighty stump of the rectangular keep of with the underlying chapel shows, for the period around 1200 typical large finely tuned hewn ashlar masonry and in the south and east of the plant are still the walls of residential buildings with windows in the Romanesque period. There was a cistern in the courtyard . The Burgplatz is now a ground monument .

literature

Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 249-253.
Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Friedrich Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 89.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Laber - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Laaber castle ruins at burgseite.de
Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun