Auburg Castle Stables

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Auburg Castle Stables
Former St. Oswald's castle chapel

Former St. Oswald's castle chapel

Creation time : First mentioned in the 1st half of the 13th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle chapel
Standing position : Nobles, clericals
Place: Barbing -Auburg
Geographical location 49 ° 0 '19.2 "  N , 12 ° 19' 1.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '19.2 "  N , 12 ° 19' 1.2"  E
Height: 320  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Auburg (Bavaria)
Auburg Castle Stables

The Burgstall Auburg is a lost moated castle 250 meters southeast of the district of Auburg at 320  m above sea level. NN of the municipality of Barbing in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria .

The former castle complex was a pond complex with a moat and two almost rectangular rings with a secular St. Oswald castle chapel from the early 17th century. Today Postal is an archaeological site and is next to the chapel a few above-ground remains of the keep .

The moated castle, of which only a few data are available, was built by the Lords of Aue and mentioned in the first half of the 13th century. In 1430 the castle is mentioned as the "new fortress" and in 1634 it was destroyed by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War . The Hochstift Regensburg , Molitor and the Eberl family are named as other owners of the castle . The ruins were largely preserved; it was not until 1958 that they were largely leveled in the area of ​​the keep.

The former castle chapel was restored by the Gerl family until 2016. In June 2017 she received the Monument Protection Medal of the Free State of Bavaria.

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 99-104
  • Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria, Volume III: Upper Palatinate . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Auburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Monument Protection Medal 2017 . Munich June 2017, p. 16-17 ( online [PDF; accessed June 23, 2017]).