Burgstall Mitterndorf

Burgstall Mitterndorf
Creation time :	around 1100
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Dachau - Mitterndorf
Geographical location	48 ° 15 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 25' 13.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '25.6 "  N , 11 ° 25' 13.5"  E

The Burgstall Mitterndorf refers to an abandoned medieval hilltop castle on the Giglberg above the Amper about 200 meters east-northeast of the church of St. Nikolaus and St. Maria in Mitterndorf , a district of the Dachau community in the Dachau district in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1100 by the Counts of Scheyern . In 1123 an " Arnold II comes de Dahoe " was mentioned. In 1142/43 the castle was built by Duke Heinrich XI. destroyed in the Guelph-Staufer dispute.

Small remains of the tower hill are still preserved from the former castle complex, probably a tower hill castle.

literature

• Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke (arr.): Upper Bavaria . Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
• Michael W. Weithmann, District of Upper Bavaria (ed.): Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Munich 1995.

Web links

• Entry on Mitterndorf in the private database "Alle Burgen".