Adelstetten Castle

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Image of the abandoned Adelstetten Castle
Location of the abandoned Adelstetten Castle

The abandoned Adelstetten Castle was a Niederungsburg in the Adelstetten district of Ainring south of the road to Teisendorf in the Berchtesgadener Land district in Bavaria (house no. 5).

history

The history of the aristocratic estate goes back to the 15th century. The first owner was Hartmann von Wolkersdorf . The Archbishop of Salzburg, Sigismund I, had given the castle to Adelstätte in 1458 by way of exchange. Then the noble estate passed into the possession of the Lords of Nussdorf . In 1499, Wolfgang von Nussdorf, Hereditary Marshal of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, sold the estate to Abbot Virgil II of St. Peter's Monastery . In 1509 the building burned down completely. It was rebuilt under Abbot Wolfgang again and in the same year against the court Rüdersdorf in Waging am See at Clement Trauner, carers of Raschenberg , reversed.

The castle then became the ancestral seat of the Traun family for 153 years . Mention should be made of Burkhart Trauner zu Adlstätten , who founded a branch of the family here in 1523 and who led the title to Adlstätten after the property acquired. Ignaz von Trauner (* 1638 at Adelstetten Castle near Salzburg, † October 21, 1694 in Regensburg), who was abbot of St. Emmeram in Regensburg from 1691 to 1694, is also part of this family branch . After Clemens Trauner's death, his son Burkhard Trauner and his wife Margaret, née von Haunsperg , inherited the property in Adelstetten. On February 17, 1599, Burkhart and his descendants received excellent freedom and pardons from Archbishop Michael von Kuenburg for the noble seat of Adelstetten. After Burkhard, his son Georg († 1602), high princely councilor and treasurer, inherited Adelstetten. Georg Trauner rebuilt the Meierhof next to the castle in 1598 . Then his son Wilhelm followed in possession. The last of this line was Dionysius Dietrich Trauner, who sold the castle to 1667 at Johann Joachim Weckherlin, who is also the Hofmarkfreiheiten of the Archbishop Guidobald of Thun and Hohenstein received and thereafter Weckherlin of Adlstetten called. He had the lock repaired at great expense. This is evidenced by a building plaque that is walled in in the Eschelberg courtyard with the following inscription:

"This completely ruined building was raised again by the Woll Edlgebornen Mr. J. Joachim von Adelstötter, High Princely Salzburg Chamber Rath, in the 1667th year."

- Quoted from Willi Huber (1988, p. 7)

This was followed by Johann Martin Weckerlin († 1731), also a royal councilor, Truchseß and carer of Raschberg, as the last of his family. After that, the castle passed into the possession of the universal heiress M. Anna Catharina von May and then to her heirs von Griming. Further owners are then Johann Josef Kleudi von Griming, Niederrain and Adelstetten († 1791). Then his sons in the property followed suit. Anton Freiherr von Griming († 1818) is named as the last landowner of Adelstetten. Under the Grimings, the castle fell into disrepair, and the properties belonging to it were sold. In 1821 the castle was completely demolished.

Adelstetten Castle then and now

The castle is said to have had four corner towers and was surrounded by a wall. The castle and castle wall were said to be in the middle of a pond. Access was via a wooden bridge.

In front of house no. 11a in Adelstetten, a nearly one meter high ledge can still be seen, which formed the foundation of the former castle. This remainder is 20 meters wide and 10 meters long on the south side. The pond, which is now covered with water, is said to be a small remnant of the former castle pond.

literature

  • Willi Huber: The former castle of Adelstetten. Heimatblätter: Supplement to the Reichenhaller Tagblatt and Freilassinger Anzeiger , 1988 (vol. 56), pp. 7–8.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 59 .

Web links

Commons : Adelstetten  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ignaz von Trauner on Benedictine Lexicon
  2. ↑ A presumably incorrect owner story is claimed by Werner Meyer: According to this, the Lindl von Traunstein, the Loreto Monastery in Salzburg and the Salzburg court architect Giovanni Gaspare Zuccalli should be mentioned as other owners of Adelstetten . The Moshamer were also associated with Adelstetten.
  3. ↑ Willi Huber, 1988, p. 7.

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 42.8 ″  N , 12 ° 56 ′ 47.9 ″  E