Pilbis lock

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Pilbis lock
Siegenburg Castle.JPG
Alternative name (s): Siegenburg Castle, Siegenburg Castle
Creation time : 16th Century
Conservation status: Completely
Place: Siegenburg
Geographical location 48 ° 45 '18 "  N , 11 ° 50' 53.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '18 "  N , 11 ° 50' 53.2"  E
Height: 387  m
Pilbis Castle (Bavaria)
Pilbis lock

The Pilbis Castle (also Siegenburger Castle ) is a castle complex in Siegenburg , Kelheim district , in Lower Bavaria , which was built in the 16th century on the site of the castle that burned down in the 15th century . The building is protected as a monument .

location

The facility is located near the lower market square at the foot of the Kirchberg in a square between Hofmarkstrasse in the west and Schartstrasse in the east, on Landshuter Strasse , which passes a few meters to the east and is popularly called "Die Spreng". The building ensemble stands on a small hill in the park of the Siegenburg Palace.

History and description

Leonhard Pilbis von Siegenburg (also Leohnhart Pilbis ), citizen, patrician and councilor of Siegenburg and married to Klara Pilbis, born Freiin von Pfettrach near Landshut, is named in regional records as the builder of the castle, in the middle of the 16th century a two-storey steep roof building instead of the old castle built with bat dormers with two corner projections with an octagonal top and onion hoods .

After that, the castle came to various owners several times. a. to Raimund Fasold von Schäsen, later to Oswald Egg, Hereditary Marshal and Obrist-Wachtmeister, who is considered to be the rebuilder of the castle that was demolished in the Thirty Years War .

Other known owners are:

  • Nikolaus Bernhard von Egg and Freifrau Maria, b. Freiin von Königsfeld and Affecking
  • Erasmus Lampfridsheimer
  • Manager Veit Müller around 1678 for Count Porthia von Lauterbach
  • Herr von Schleiss, nurse in Rottenburg; later his widow Baroness von Schleiß, b. Countess von Maxlrain around 1700
  • Ernst von Lindenfels and his wife Maria Theresia around 1709
  • Max Albert Count of Lodron
  • Baron von Wadenspann
  • Harrter, administrator in Wildenberg
  • the Bavarian colonel Herr von Magg,
  • Herr von Keck
  • later Thomas, called Heiselpetz
  • for 1843 a Josef Schmidleitner is named
  • then the economist Otto Schmidmayer
  • in the 20th century is listed for 1922 Eduard and Karl Wittmann
  • Jordan Eduard has been the owner since 1977

After a fire in the 1920s, the building was partially renovated. Only remnants are left of the surrounding wall from the time it was built. Farm and stable buildings as well as a single-storey saddle roof construction date from the 16th to 17th centuries. A two-arched bridge with parapet over the moat and the inner castle gate with adjoining wall date from the 16th century.

The complex still includes the farm and stable buildings, including the farm building, a two-story pitched roof building with plaster frames, essentially assigned to the 16th to 17th centuries, and the Marstall , a single-storey saddle roof building from the 16th and 17th centuries.

literature

  • $ 13: The Pilbi's Castle in Siegenburg . In: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria, Volumes 13-14 , Landshut 1868, pp. 265–267
  • Felix Mader: The art monuments of Lower Bavaria: District Office Kelheim (Volume 7), R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1922, p. 334

Web links

Commons : Pilbis-Schloss  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The Pilbis Castle - Pilbis Castle - Siegenburg.de. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c List of monuments for Siegenburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation