Castle ruins winemakers

Castle ruins winemakers
Castle ruins winemakers
Alternative name (s):	Oberwinzer Castle
Creation time :	11th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Ministerials, dukes, nobles
Place:	Winemaker
Geographical location	48 ° 43 '42 "  N , 13 ° 4' 5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '42 "  N , 13 ° 4' 5"  E
Height:	347.6  m above sea level NN

The castle ruin Winzer , also called Burg Oberwinzer , is the freely accessible ruin of a hilltop castle at 347.6  m above sea level. NN high hill, the so-called "Schlossberg", above the Winzer market in the Deggendorf district in Lower Bavaria .

history

The place Winzer is mentioned for the first time in 1005 in a deed of gift. Around 1009, the Duke of Bavaria donated the property to the Bishop of Bamberg, whose ministerial office then built the Winzer Castle on an area that was already settled earlier in the 11th century to protect the area and called itself "Winzerer". In 1190 it was mentioned as an imperial fief. The winemakers became noble knights from 1230, whose line died out in 1324.

From 1324 to 1558 the castle was owned by the Lords of Puchberg and from 1558 to 1603 by the Lords of Schwarzenberg . Otto Heinrich von Schwarzenberg, who was the most powerful and richest knight of all the lords of Winzer, had the castle enlarged. After 1603 ownership went to Bavaria.

Oberwinzer Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

On November 1, 1744, during the War of the Austrian Succession , the castle was blown up by Hungarian hussars under the leadership of the Pandur leader Franz Freiherr von der Trenck .

In the 19th century, the remains of the castle were used as a quarry, later the ruins were placed under monument protection by King Ludwig I.

Today the site is a landmark building that characterizes the landscape D-2-71-153-2 "Castle ruins, remnants of the ring and kennel walls with two tower stumps on the north, west and south sides as well as remains of the wall on the west and east side of the market, essentially an early medieval complex, Round arches restoration 19th century ", as well as a ground monument D-2-7244-0119" Underground medieval and modern findings in the area of ​​the castle complex with two trenches, settlement of the Roman Empire "recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

From the core of the early medieval castle complex with keep and double bering , wall remains up to around eight meters high have been preserved.

literature

• Franz X. Bogner : The Gäuboden from the air. Attenkofer Verlag, Straubing 2014, ISBN 978-3-942742-20-7 .
• Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , p. 63.
• Günther T. Werner: Castles, palaces and ruins in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1979, ISBN 3-7917-0603-9 , pp. 44-45.

Web links

• Entry on castle ruins Winzer in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Castle ruin Winzer at burgseite.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for winegrowers (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)