Neufels castle ruins (Neuburg am Inn)

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Neufels castle ruins
Creation time : Around 1320
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornlage, Turmhügelburg
Conservation status: Castle ruins, three moats preserved
Place: Neuburg am Inn - Neufelser - "Neufelsleite"
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '31.5 "  N , 13 ° 26' 34.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '31.5 "  N , 13 ° 26' 34.1"  E
Height: 360  m above sea level NHN
Neufels castle ruins (Bavaria)
Neufels castle ruins

The castle ruins Neufels is only as ruins preserved late medieval hilltop castle from the type of a motte (Motte) in the desert Neufelser , in the municipality of Neuburg am Inn in the district of Passau in Bavaria . It was an outer bailey of the Neuburg and was built around 1320. Three trenches have been preserved from the earlier castle, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7446-0106 "Medieval tower hill" Neufels "".

history

Neufels Castle was built around 1320 by the Austrian Duke Frederick the Fair as an outer bailey for the Neuburg . Wernstein Castle , now located on Austrian territory, and the Frauenhaus castle ruins, which are located right next to the Neuburg, also belonged to the Vorwerk .

In its remote location, it served as a powder magazine, and at the foot of the castle rock there was also a former stamping mill , the Schwarze Sag Mühl . At the beginning of the 15th century, Neufelser nurses are documented, but they did not live in the castle, but in the associated building yard, the Neufelser Hof.

At the beginning of the 16th century the tower was destroyed by fire. In 1529 Neufels Castle was transferred from the Neuburg lord of the castle, Count Niklas II von Salm, to the Passau builder and painter Wolf Huber . He did not receive the castle complex, however, and so it fell into complete disrepair in the period that followed.

It was probably finally destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years War .

description

The wooded castle site is around 360  m above sea level. NN Höhe immediately north-northeast of the Neufelser wasteland on a ridge-like mountain spur through the very steep bank of the Inn , which here also forms the border with Austria , and the northwestern, also very steep valley of the Schwarzsägbach . The castle complex was naturally very well protected against approach on three sides, access was only possible on the south-south-west side.

At the south-south-west transition from the mountain spur to a small plateau above the Inn valley, the strong neck ditch is still visible, which separated the area of ​​the castle from the fore area. There are also two trenches to the north-northeast, in the direction of the spur tip. The castle consisted of a round tower measuring eight meters in diameter, which was enclosed by a rectangular ring wall.

literature

  • Michael Weithmann: Castles and palaces in Lower Bavaria - guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley . Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2013, ISBN 978-3-936511-77-2 , p. 229.
  • Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Laßleben , Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 250.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Weithmann: Castles and Palaces in Lower Bavaria - Guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley , p. 229
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Neuburg a.Inn (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 145 kB)
  3. ↑ Source history up to this point: Michael Weithmann: Castles and Palaces in Lower Bavaria - Guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley , p. 229
  4. ↑ Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 250
  5. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  6. ↑ Source description up to this point: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 250
  7. ↑ Michael Weithmann: Castles and Palaces in Lower Bavaria - Guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley , p. 229