Wetterfeld castle ruins

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Wetterfeld castle ruins
Wetterfeld Castle ruins - view of the southwest side of the gate tower

Wetterfeld Castle ruins - view of the southwest side of the gate tower

Alternative name (s): Old castle
Creation time : around 1118
Castle type : Niederungsburg, island location, local location
Conservation status: Gate tower, remains of the walling, moat
Standing position : Nobles, Ministerials
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Roding weather field
Geographical location 49 ° 13 '21.8 "  N , 12 ° 32' 33.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '21.8 "  N , 12 ° 32' 33.6"  E
Height: 364  m above sea level NHN
Wetterfeld castle ruins (Bavaria)
Wetterfeld castle ruins

The Wetterfeld castle ruins , also known as the Old Castle , are the ruins of a moated castle in the center of Wetterfeld , a district of Roding in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria . Wetterfeld Castle is one of the few moated castles in the Upper Palatinate .

history

In 1118 the Diepolding ministerial Gottfried von Wetterfeld, a member of the powerful family of Margraves von Cham-Vohburg, is named, a brother of the abbot Reginboto of the Reichenbach monastery and in 1179 again Karl and Heinrich "de Weterinfeld".

In 1268 a Deinhardus is named who is presumably subordinate to the Bavarian dukes and in 1283 the inheritance goes to the Wittelsbach family . Several changes of ownership followed. In 1428 and 1433 the castle was destroyed and then rebuilt.

The castle, now divided into four “castle hats” (legally independent building complexes, assigned separately) (see Wetterfeld (Roding) ), was destroyed twice by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War and then rebuilt. After the castle became increasingly dilapidated and was abandoned by its keepers , the castle grounds were divided and built with private houses.

Wetterfeld Castle with moat
Wetterfeld Castle with drawbridge

description

The castle complex, bounded in the north-east by a village pond, still has a walled, deep ditch that could be filled through a sluice in the event of a defense.

In addition to the surrounding walls (with kennels and wall towers), the castle ruins only show the large gate tower , which also served as a residential tower , made of rubble stones with corner blocks with a large and a small passage with brick niches into which drawbridges could be let. Other parts of the castle have risen or disappeared in today's residential buildings.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 346-355.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 98.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister: Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , p. 18.

Web links

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