Burgstall Rottenburg

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Burgstall Rottenburg
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Count
Place: Rottenburg an der Laaber - "Hofberg"
Geographical location 48 ° 42 '3.6 "  N , 12 ° 1' 41.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '3.6 "  N , 12 ° 1' 41.5"  E
Height: 475  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Rottenburg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Rottenburg

The Postal Rottenburg is a Outbound medieval hilltop castle at about 475  m above sea level. NHN , which stood on the Hofberg instead of today's mountain cemetery of the city of Rottenburg an der Laaber in the Landshut district .

Nothing is left of the former castle complex. Today the Burgstall is registered as a ground monument D-2-7238-0198 by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

history

As early as the turn of the century, the Romans built a guard on the Hofberg to protect the Roman road to Regensburg . The street name Römerweg still indicates this today .

After Bavarian and Germanic landings in the centuries to come, a Count Rodolt or Rodin from the influential Ebersberg family built the remains of the Roman complex into a castle. When the Sempt and Ebersberg family died out in 1045, the lords and later Counts of Roning took over the inheritance. Count Otto, who founded the Roning-Rottenburg branch, expanded the castle in terms of defense and living space around 1100 in order to inhabit it himself. With the death of Count Konrad III. In 1180 the line died out, which resulted in bloody inheritance disputes. The Moosburger dynasty decided this for itself and expanded the castle into a mighty fortress . After the counts of Moosburg-Rottenburg died out in 1279, the Rottenburg fortress and the surrounding area became the property of the Wittelsbach duke Heinrich von Niederbayern . In the period that followed, Rottenburg gained importance due to its location on the newly built connecting road between the ducal cities of Landshut and Kelheim , so that, starting from a ducal tavern, many craftsmen settled in the 15th century. In 1378 the market rights passed from Roning to Rottenburg.

The decline of the Veste Rottenburg began with the Thirty Years' War . In 1632 the Swedes burned the castle down to the keep . In 1669 and 1681 there were further fire disasters. Around 1800 the steadfast keep was finally demolished as part of the "Entburgung" in order to pave the road to Landshut. With that, the last part of the castle disappeared from the townscape of Rottenburg.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Rottenburg an der Laaber (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 145 kB)
  3. ↑ a b c City of Rottenburg ad Laaber: History . Online at www.rottenburg-laaber.de. Retrieved January 16, 2016.