Burgstall Lechsend

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Burgstall Lechsend
Alternative name (s): Lechsgemünd
Castle type : Höhenburg, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Marxheim - Lechsend
Geographical location 48 ° 44 '20 "  N , 10 ° 56' 0.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '20 "  N , 10 ° 56' 0.6"  E
Height: 435.2  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Lechsend (Bavaria)
Burgstall Lechsend

The Burgstall Lechsend , also called Lechsgemünd , is an abandoned hilltop castle at 435.2  m above sea level. NN opposite the Lech confluence with the Danube in Lechsend , part of the municipality of Marxheim in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

history

Little is known about the castle, which is situated on a hill at a strategically important point. The castle was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Lechsgemünd , a powerful Franconian-Bavarian noble family and loyal supporters of the Staufer emperors . The Lechsgemünder ruled the Sualafeldgau from here , the core area of ​​which was today's municipality of Marxheim, as indicated by the first documentary mention of a Count Luitgar (Leodegar) of Lechsgemünd , who also founded the St. Walburg Monastery in Eichstätt in 1035 . In the 11th and 12th centuries the Lechsgemünder counts were at the height of their power, which suggests that their family castle was built around 1000. In the time of Heinrich (I) von Lechsgemünd († 1078), the first evidence of Lechsgemünd Castle as the ancestral seat of the noble family comes from.

In 1248 Berchtold von Lechsgemünd had a customs post built on the Marxheim bridge over the Danube. However, the Regensburg merchants did not agree with the customs duties and had the castle destroyed, whereupon the counts moved to Graisbach Castle in neighboring Graisbach and called themselves Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach from then on.

Only the castle hill remains from the former castle complex.

literature

  • Lexikon von Baiern II, Ulm 1796 published by the Stettinische Buchhandlung Verlag, page 172
  • Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen: "Monuments in Bavaria", Volume VII. Schwaben, Munich 1985

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doris Pfister, Lechsgemünd-Graisbach, Grafen von , Historisches Lexikon Bayerns from May 15, 2012; Accessed April 20, 2019