Linden castle ruins
Linden castle ruins | |
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The remaining tower remains |
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Creation time : | 12th Century |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
Conservation status: | Tower remnant |
Standing position : | Counts, nobles |
Place: | Geiersthal- Linden |
Geographical location | 49 ° 1 '20.3 " N , 12 ° 58' 8.6" E |
Height: | 535 m above sea level NN |
The Linden castle ruins are not far from the B 85 in the village of the same name near the town of Patersdorf in the municipality of Geiersthal in the Bavarian district of Regen .
history
The Linden moated castle was built by the Counts of Bogen . Later it came into the possession of the Wittelsbach family . In 1470 Duke Albrecht IV exchanged them with Konrad von Nussberg for half of his share in Neunussberg Castle .
Later the castle came to the Lords of Degenberg . They owned the ducal monopoly for brewing wheat beer and built the first and for a long time the only wheat beer brewery in the Bavarian Forest here in 1553 . The brewery was later relocated to Viechtach .
After the Degenbergs died out in 1602, the building fell to the Wittelsbach family. These made it a caretaker's seat . The castle fell into disrepair and the nursing home was burned down by the Swedes during the Thirty Years War in 1641. In 1761 the nursing court was moved to Viechtach, and the castle passed into civil ownership. There are only a remnant of the tower and some ditches .
literature
- Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , p. 114.