Burgstall Wildenstein

Burgstall Wildenstein
Alternative name (s):	Altenbuchberg
Creation time :	around 1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Hohenau - Buchberg
Geographical location	48 ° 48 '51.3 " N , 13 ° 29' 52.1" E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '51.3 " N , 13 ° 29' 52.1" E
Height:	547 m above sea level NHN

The Postal Wildenstein is the residue of a dialed , high medieval hilltop castle , about 350 meters north-northwest of the bridge over the Wolf Steiner Ohe at Buchberg , in the municipality of Hohenau in the district of Freyung-Grafenau in Bavaria . Wildenstein Castle was later named Altenbuchberg after its new owners, the Buchbergers . Today only very few remains of the castle have survived, such as two moats and today's Church of St. Erasmus, the former castle chapel .

Geographical location

The now mostly wooded, but also with residential houses and the Catholic branch church St. Erasmus existed at 547 m above sea level. NHN height on a terrain spur that protrudes first to the southwest and then to the south-southwest into the gusset between the Wolfsteiner Ohe and the Buchberger Bach . This spur is protected in the south and east by the steep slope of the terrain to Wolfsteiner Ohe and in the west and northwest by the deeply cut valley of the Buchberger Bach. The foreland then rises further to the north-east and soon raises the castle site.

The Neuenbuchberg castle ruins are located about 280 meters southwest of the former Wildenstein Castle, separated by a depression on a mountain tongue .

history

Wildenstein Castle was built around 1200 by Passau Bishop Wolfker von Ellenbrechtskirchen to secure the so-called "Land of the Abbey" . It was renewed in 1308. 1369 the Puchberger were with the castle invested , they gave it the name Altenbuch mountain. Nothing of the former castle has been preserved, today the site is a ground monument D-2-7146-0002 “Archaeological findings and finds from the Middle Ages and early modern times in the area of the Wildenstein castle stable and the former St. Erasmus castle chapel ” from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation detected.

description

The two-part castle site is secured by an outer ditch against the forecourt, through which the local road from Buchberg to Buchbergmühle runs today . At these outer trench, the irregular terrain which closes Vorburg on. The outer bailey is separated from the main bailey by an inner ditch, through which a street now also leads to house 56. This inner wide neck ditch is slightly curved and secured the main castle. The area of the main castle at the tip of the spur is conical and has an oval plateau. The plateau at the top of this cone is a maximum of 30 meters long and 19 meters wide and is slightly inclined to the southwest. Towards the neck ditch, the plateau carries a shield wall that rises about four meters high, the top of which is ten meters above the bottom of the ditch.

At the extreme tip of the spur is the church of St. Erasmus from the middle of the 17th century, which emerged from the earlier castle chapel.

literature

Michael Weithmann: Castles and palaces in Lower Bavaria - guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley . Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2013, ISBN 978-3-936511-77-2 , p. 133.
Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (arrangement): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume II Niederbayern, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), Oldenbourg publishing house, 1985.
Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 116.

Web links

Entry on Wildenstein Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
↑ Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , p. 90 ff.
↑ Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 116, he gives the year 1250 as the time of construction
↑ Michael Weithmann: Castles and Palaces in Lower Bavaria - Guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley , p. 133
↑ List of monuments for Hohenau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 134 kB)
↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria, p. 116

[1] Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas

[2] Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1547-X , p. 90 ff.

[3] Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 116, he gives the year 1250 as the time of construction

[4] Michael Weithmann: Castles and Palaces in Lower Bavaria - Guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley , p. 133

[5] List of monuments for Hohenau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 134 kB)

[6] Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria, p. 116