Burgstall Altenburg (Hohenthann)

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Altenburg Castle Stables
Former Castle chapel St. Georg in Altenburg

Former Castle chapel St. Georg in Altenburg

Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Hohenthann - Altenburg
Geographical location 48 ° 40 '5.6 "  N , 12 ° 4' 14.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '5.6 "  N , 12 ° 4' 14.8"  E
Height: 455  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Altenburg (Bavaria)
Altenburg Castle Stables

The Postal Altenburg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on 455  m above sea level. NN in the district of the same name in the municipality of Hohenthann in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut . Of the former castle complex, only the chapel remains, which can essentially be assigned to the Romanesque style epoch. The Burgstall is registered as a ground monument with the number D-2-7338-0186 by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , the chapel as a monument with the number D-2-74-141-6.

location

Einödhof Altenburg is located on a spur above the Kleiner Labertal , just under two kilometers northwest of the center of Hohenthann. The pilgrimage church of Heiligenbrunn is only around five hundred meters away ; Around seven hundred meters away is the former Türkenfeld Castle , of which only the chapel is still preserved.

history

The area around what is now Altenburg seems to have been settled very early on. A prehistoric burial mound field at the junction from the state road 2143 between Hohenthann and Rottenburg an der Laaber is evidence of this . A castle must have stood there in the Middle Ages, but it was destroyed early on. The former castle or palace chapel dates from the 13th or 14th century and a pointed helmet was added in the 19th century.

Castle chapel St. Georg

The chapel dedicated to St. George is a small Romanesque hall building with a turret on the east side above the choir . The turret has a pointed helmet with a cross, which was probably added in the 19th century. The nave has two window axes and a flat wooden ceiling, while the choir has a baroque cross vault . The four-column high altar with segmented arched gable and a depiction of St. George on horseback on the altar sheet is also baroque and bears the year 1701 on the back. The seating in the church in the form of two bar gratings to the left and right of the central aisle is also remarkable . The two bells in the roof turret in the chapel are remarkable. One of them has a wattle handle and bears the date 1461. When many church bells were drawn in during the Second World War, this old bell rang in the tower of the Hohenthanner Church.

Picture gallery

  • Roof turret of the Church of St. George

  • Interior of the Church of St. George

  • High altar with representation of St. George

  • Figure of St. James the Elder

  • Bar grating in the interior of the Church of St. George

Web links

Commons : St. Georg (Altenburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry on Altenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Arlan - Association for Archeology City and District Landshut e. V .: Altenburg - St. Georg Chapel ( Memento from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Churches and steeples of the homeland: roof turret of St. Georg . Online at www.elcom-stadler.de. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Churches and steeples of the homeland: high altar of St. Georg . Online at www.elcom-stadler.de. Retrieved February 28, 2016.