Burgstall Wildenholzen

Burgstall Wildenholzen
Creation time :	before 1381
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Bruck -Wildholzen
Geographical location	48 ° 0 '56 "  N , 11 ° 53' 47"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '56 "  N , 11 ° 53' 47"  E
Height:	560  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Wildenholzen is an Outbound Spur castle on a 560  m above sea level. NHN high elevation above the Wildenholzener Schlucht, about one kilometer southwest of Bruck in the district of Ebersberg in Bavaria .

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1381 as owned by the Lords of Pienzenau , and in 1386 as "Wildenholtzen" castle. 1443 which found Neuweihe the chapel of St. Andrew and probably take a new building for the castle . In 1818 the castle was demolished except for the castle chapel and in 1900 a wall fountain with a memorial plaque was built on Schlossstrasse.

The castle was a simple late Gothic residential tower with a hipped roof without bering with the St. Andreas castle chapel as an annex . From the castle complex, which no longer exists, the remains of a six-meter-wide neck ditch were uncovered 50 meters south of the castle chapel.

Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-7937-0003 "Burgstall des Mittelalter" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

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. 492–494.
• Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 74 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 492 f.
3. ↑ List of monuments for Bruck (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 130 kB)