Niederviehhausen castle ruins

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Niederviehhausen castle ruins
View of the keep from the southwest

View of the keep from the southwest

Alternative name (s): Viehhausen Castle
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Keep
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Sinzing - Viehhausen
Geographical location 48 ° 58 '50.3 "  N , 11 ° 58' 11.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '50.3 "  N , 11 ° 58' 11.6"  E
Height: 430  m above sea level NHN
Castle ruin Niederviehhausen (Bavaria)
Niederviehhausen castle ruins

The castle ruin Niederviehhausen , also called Burg Viehhausen , is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 430  m above sea level. NHN on the edge of a high plateau above the Schwarzen Laber in the area of ​​the district Viehhausen of the municipality Sinzing in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built in the 12th century and was first mentioned in 1181 with a Brouno de Vienhusen . The lords of Viehhausen were probably ministerials to the Regensburg burgrave and owned the castle until 1266. The last of the Viehhauser seems to be Ulricus Viehauser or Udalricus III. To have been a cattle house . In 1379 he was the abbot of theChecking Monastery , resigned voluntarily on January 3, 1383 and died on November 30, 1390.

At the end of the 13th century, the castle came to the Wittelsbach family , because the Duke Surbar from 1280 led income from Viehhausen Castle. They occupied the castle with carers until the 14th century . Likewise, the castle is always pledged again: 1308 is here Conrad of Reisacher called 1326 occurs Purcard of Reisach to Viehhausen as Siegler of the monastery Prüll on, 1326 is here (noble family) Beef Maul called, 1337 Ruprecht von Paul Village, 1340 Louis Barbinger, 1345 Ruger the Reich and 1346 Hirmann the Sturgeon. Probably after 1368 the castle was in pledge possession of the notorious Chamerau robber barons , who had their ancestral seat at Castle Chamerau and named themselves after the castle after 1368 as pledge of the Bavarian duke . In 1389 Hiltprand der Chamerauer moved the castle to Hadamar von Laber . After an arbitration by the emperor in 1434, the castle returned to the Wittelbach family, several owners followed, and the castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . Then Niederviehhausen came to the Wolfensteiner, followed by Hans Dunkhäß, Thomas Hütinger, Jakob Khaiser and Wolf Steurer. In 1569 he handed over his property to Leonhard Sauerzapf. This transition must have been connected with serious disputes, because Steuerer shot the brother of Leonhard Sauerzapf, Heinrich Sauerzapf, in Regensburg. Leonhard also came into the possession of Eichhofen Castle and united his local property with Oberviehhausen . After Leonhard's death (1600), the property passed to his daughter Anna Katharina, who was married to Hans Jakob Rosenbusch von Notzing . The Rosenbuschs remained in the possession of Hofmark Niederviehhausen until the end of the 18th century.

In the Thirty Years' War low and Oberviehhausen were destroyed. Only Oberviehhausen was subsequently rebuilt by Franz Wilhelm von Rosenbusch, while the remains of Niederviehhausen Castle were left to decay.

description

Today, the former small castle shows only the well-preserved built around 1200 six-story 22-meter-high rectangular keep with 1.9 meter thick walls hump blocks , of the moat covering that separated the spur of the plateau.

From the former Palas , subsequent to the east with the bailey with cistern enclosing walls is nothing get more. The castle probably also had a kennel , which seems to be indicated by a bulge in the spur. The Burgplatz is now a ground monument .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Ottlinger: Sinzing from the beginnings to the present. Municipality of Sinzing 2005, p. 210.

Web links

Commons : Castle ruin Niederviehhausen  - collection of pictures