Natternberg castle ruins

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Natternberg castle ruins
Natternberg castle ruins

Natternberg castle ruins

Alternative name (s): Natternberg Castle
Creation time : first mentioned in 1145
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Deggendorf - Natternberg
Geographical location 48 ° 49 '31.5 "  N , 12 ° 54' 42"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '31.5 "  N , 12 ° 54' 42"  E
Height: 375  m above sea level NN
Natternberg Castle Ruins (Bavaria)
Natternberg castle ruins

The castle ruin Natternberg , also called Schloss Natternberg , is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle at 375  m above sea level. NN high Natternberg (Schlossbergweg) north of Natternberg , a district of Deggendorf in the Deggendorf district in Bavaria .

history

Presumably existed as early as 1000 BC. A walled settlement, which was expanded into a castle in the early Middle Ages .

The castle is mentioned for the first time in 1145 in a document from the Windberg monastery as a noble seat of a Hartwig von Natternberg "judex statutus praeses castro in Natherenberg", he was a servant of the Counts of Bogen . After the Bogener dynasty died out in 1242, the property came to the Wittelsbachers ( Otto II. ), Who made the castle the seat of a keeper . The Bavarian Duke Heinrich der Natternberger grew up in the castle and died in 1333 at the age of 21 from an improperly treated wound on his leg. Now mortgaged the Wittelsbach Peter Egg , captain of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria , with the castle. However, Peter von Egg fell out of favor and had to return Natternberg to the Duke in 1357 after a year-long siege.

Natternberg Castle 1720

In the course of the Thirty Years War (1618/48) the castle was badly damaged, but it remained the seat of a caretaker. On May 19, 1743, it was destroyed in the War of the Austrian Succession . At the beginning of the 19th century, after the caretaker's seat had been given up, the castle came to the Counts of Preysing at Moos Castle , who sold it to a Baron Berger in 1836. He left it to a Nattenberg landlord in 1838. The castle came back to the Preysing counts after several changes of ownership (including to the savings and advance payment association in Passau) and was inhabited until the Second World War .

Today the site is a landmark building D-2-71-119-117 "Castle ruins, basements of the keep as well as remains of the ring wall, medieval system, tower end and other building walls probably not until the 19th century", and as a ground monument D-2-7143-0013 " Elevation settlement of the linear ceramics, the Urnfield, Hallstatt and Latène times as well as the early Middle Ages, underground findings and finds in the area of ​​the castle ruins of the High and Late Middle Ages ”recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

Of the medieval, elongated castle complex, which was divided by a wall and originally had two towers, the main tower ( keep or watch tower ) in the south-east corner on a square base with a side length of nine meters and a wall thickness of three meters with a gate as well a ring wall and cellar vault received. The foundations of several residential buildings from more recent times can also be found here . In the northeast corner are the remains of the second tower ( residential or gate tower ) and other remains of the wall ring. The rear part of the castle complex was probably the core castle . An engraving by Michael Wening shows a castle chapel and buildings that have now disappeared. In 1985 the facility was renovated.

legend

“The devil had long annoyed Metten monastery and he wanted to exterminate the pious monks. There he carried a huge boulder out of the mountains at night and in fog. He wanted to throw it into the Danube so that it might come out of the banks and flood Metten. When he drew back to throw, they were ringing the day in Metten. As a result, the devil was so frightened that the boulder slipped from him and fell hard on the far bank. He fled to hell quickly. Many toads and vipers soon nestled on the mountain, which is why the mountain was given the name Natternberg.

According to another legend, the Deggendorf people were very pious in earlier times, which annoyed the devil. Then he thought back and forth about how to make it different. "Well, if they never are, then their piety is abolished too," he thought, flew quickly to the south, broke loose from the stone border wall below, a huge piece of rock, loaded it onto his wheelbarrow, and trotted back to the Danube with it. That happened in the pitch black night. The rock was supposed to dam the Danube and the flood drowned the Deggendorfer. When he was already close to the river, the morning bell suddenly rang from the other bank of the Metten monastery church. As if a hornet had stung him, Satan started up, abandoned the cart and boulder and fled the area with a horrible curse.

The rock was soon teeming with hideous vipers and was therefore given the name Natternberg.

The grandmother says that you can still see the wheelbarrow horns and the two ends of the handle and some of the boys from the area have already checked. "

Remarks

The last inhabitants of the castle grew wine on the Nattenberg, the "Natternberger Teufelskralle". The mountain and the castle ruins are freely accessible and offer an excellent view. The Via Danubia cycle path passes here.

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , pp. 60-61.
  • Donatus Moosauer, Jochen Wöhrl: Castles and palaces in Lower Bavaria . 1st edition. Verlag Neue Presse, Passau 1991, ISBN 3-924484-40-6 , pp. 56-57.
  • Georg Müller: Egg Castle and its owners . Publisher M. Renner, Deggendorf 1885.
  • Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 42-43.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Deggendorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 157 kB)
  3. ^ Nattenberg legends. Quoted from: Michael Waltinger: Niederbayerische Sagen