Ottenburg Castle

Ottenburg Castle 1699 on a painting in the Fürstengang Freising . On the right the village of Günzenhausen.

Ottenburg Castle is a castle in Ottenburg in the municipality of Eching in the Freising district .

Ottenburg is mentioned for the first time in 750 as "Outinpurg". The episcopal-Freising fiefdom since at least 1070 was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Ottenburg-Grögling . Around 1150/58 the medieval hilltop castle was expanded under Bishop Otto von Freising . In 1212 Ottenburg became a closed Hofmark with lower jurisdiction through the acquisition of Eching and a farm in Günzenhausen , and Deutenhausen also belonged to the Hofmark. The Freising nurse had his seat in the stately Ottenburg Castle. In 1632 the Swedes caused great damage in the Thirty Years' War. At the end of the 17th century the castle was converted into a "prince-bishop's pleasure palace".

Copper engraving of Ottenburg Castle by Michael Wening in the Topographia Bavariae around 1700

With the secularization in Bavaria , the castle came to the Bavarian state in 1803. The castle was partially demolished. The remains of the building were converted into a late Classicist villa with a hipped roof . In 1845 the castle chapel was rebuilt at its current location. Today the castle is privately owned.

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literature

• Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, pp. 305–307.
• Ernst Keller: About life and death in an old castle and its Hofmark . Fürholzen 2011.

Web links

Commons : Ottenburg Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 19 '0.4 "  N , 11 ° 35' 42.9"  E