Irsee Castle Stables

Irsee Castle Stables
Memorial plaque on the cemetery wall
Creation time :	900 to 1000
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Nobles, clericals
Construction:	Tufa, Nagelfluh
Place:	Irsee
Geographical location	47 ° 54 '23.6 "  N , 10 ° 34' 15.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '23.6 "  N , 10 ° 34' 15.5"  E
Height:	775  m above sea level NN

The Postal Irsee is an Outbound high medieval hilltop castle in Irsee in Ostallgäu in Swabia . It was built over in the late Middle Ages with the former parish church of St. Stephan. In addition to a deep ditch, only the high cemetery wall and a memorial plaque remind of the ancestral seat of the mighty Counts of Ursin-Ronsberg .

history

The castle complex was probably built as early as the 10th or 11th century as the residence of the Lords of Ursin (Irsee).

Around 1130 the Ursins moved their center of rule to Ronsberg and since then have called themselves lords - later counts - of Ronsberg after their new castle. The original residence above Irsee served from 1185 as a monastery for the Benedictine monastery, which was supposedly founded in 1182 . Before 1190, however, the Irsee Monastery was transferred to its current location, which is much lower down.

At the end of the 15th century, the parish church of the village was built on the castle grounds high above the monastery. The choir and tower of the new building were built during the term of office of Abbot Matthias Steinbrucker (1474–1490).

During the secularization , the monastery church was rededicated as the new parish church. The Stephanskirche on the Burgstall should actually be completely demolished. Ultimately, only the nave was demolished in 1838 . The choir was closed by a west wall and has served as a cemetery chapel ever since. The high tower was also preserved and, together with the choir and the high cemetery wall, forms a historical ensemble high above the monastery.

description

Choir and tower of the former parish church St. Stephan

The Burgstall lies above the main southwest part of the municipality on the edge of the plateau . In the west a deep ditch (now a path) runs down to the main road. Mighty Nagelfluh banks emerge from the ditch flanks . The conglomerate rock that had broken out near the ditch could be processed immediately and used to build the castle.

The high, partially renewed ring wall made of Nagelfluh and tuff stone blocks with brick patches probably sits on the foundations of the former ring wall .

Also the foundation of the square church tower in some northern choir angle as the base of the keep interpreted the castle Ursin and exposed at the last church renovation.

The large undeveloped area east of the cemetery is likely to mark an extensive outer bailey. The area of ​​an eastern neck ditch to be assumed here was built over by the modern cemetery expansion. The outer bailey area probably also extended to the south (site marking BayernViewer monument, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ). Overall, the castle covered an area of ​​about 130 by 115 meters, the main castle was about 60 by 80 to 100 meters.

The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments lists the ground monument as a "medieval castle stable" under the monument number D-7-8029-0099.

literature

• Tilman Breuer: City and district of Kaufbeuren . (Bavarian art monuments, IX, brief inventory). Munich 1960.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.