Burgstall Peißenberg

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Burgstall Peißenberg
Chapel and castle stable from the southwest over the neck ditch

Chapel and castle stable from the southwest over the neck ditch

Creation time : 11th to 12th centuries
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a moat
Standing position : Ministeriale, counts
Place: Peissenberg
Geographical location 47 ° 47 '31.4 "  N , 11 ° 2' 58.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '31.4 "  N , 11 ° 2' 58.6"  E
Height: 707  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Peißenberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Peißenberg

The Postal Peißenberg means a Outbound Spur castle on a 707  m above sea level. NHN high mountain spur on the southern slope of the Hohenpeißenberg at the location of the St. Georg chapel in Peißenberg in the Weilheim-Schongau district in Bavaria .

history

A castle was first mentioned in 1050 as "castrum Bisinperc", in 1130 with a "Gebego von Peißenberg" and in 1255 as "castrum Pysenberg".

In the 12th century the castle was the seat of a Welf ministerial family and was probably connected with the founding of the Rottenbuch and Steingaden monasteries by the Welfs . The lords of Peißenberg and the Marschalken von Schiltberg served as servants at the castle . In 1286 the castle came to the Counts of Seefeld ( Toerring - Seefeld ). The castle chapel St. Georg was built in the 12th to 13th centuries . 1388 the castle was in the course of the cities war with its neighboring castle "St. Jais ”(Jodok), in the Peißenberg district of“ Schlag ”destroyed by the ducal order, the castle chapel was preserved.

Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-8232-0024 “Castle stables of the high and late Middle Ages ('castrum Bisinperc') and underground medieval and early modern findings in the area of ​​the former St. Georg castle chapel" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

The entire round castle square is 60 by 25 meters and had a core castle on an elongated castle plateau sloping in several stages to the east, which was separated from the castle courtyard by a four to five meter deep ditch . To the south, the castle protected a kennel-like terrace in front of the steep slope and to the north a deep brook valley. Small remains of the castle wall can still be found in the nave of the former castle chapel .

literature

  • Max Biller: Peißenberger Heimat-Lexikon , 2nd edition from 1984
  • Max Biller: Castles . In: Max Biller, Local History Working Group: Hohenpeißenberger Heimat-Lexikon . Published by the community of Hohenpeißenberg. Complete production: Esta-Druck GmbH, Polling 1998, pp. 167-173.
  • Max Biller: The destruction of the Peißenberg castles 600 years ago. In: Lech-Isar-Land yearbook from 1988, pp. 53–63
  • 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. 313-315.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Peißenberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)