Adlstein Castle

Adlstein Castle side view

Adlstein Castle and its surroundings

Adlstein Castle is a former nursing home in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit in the Mühldorf am Inn district , today's town hall and the office of the Neumarkt-Sankt Veit administrative community .

history

The later Adlstein Castle is mentioned for the first time in the founding deed of the Neumarkt market dated August 14, 1269 as a courtyard at the St. Johann church. The Johanneshof was later expanded to become the seat of the nursing court. In 1608 the keeper Hilpold von Neuhaus bought the building, expanded it into his seat with the approval of the duke and gave it the name Adlstein. The castle remained in the possession of von Neuhaus until the death of the last member of the family in 1753. From 1759 to 1904 the castle was owned by the von Klessing family. The naturopath Rudolf Czermak, previously based in Pasing near Munich, acquired the building in 1912 and set up a practice for naturopathy there.

In 1938 the market town of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit bought Adlstein and used it in the following decades as a warehouse for the Reich Labor Service, a kindergarten, a refugee home and a home for several families. The planned and already approved demolition of the building in the 1960s, which at that time was very dilapidated, was prevented, among other things, by the efforts of the historian Benno Hubensteiner , who grew up in Neumarkt .

Todays use

Since 2001, after several years of renovation work, Adlstein Castle has housed the town hall of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit. The city archive and the Neumarkt school museum are also housed there. The garden around the castle is often used as a venue for celebrations and festivities. Every year on August 14th, the day Neumarkt was founded, the medieval castle garden festival of the local cultural association takes place there.

Monument protection

The castle is a listed building (file no. D-1-83-129-39). The building description of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation reads:

“Schloss Adlstein, former maintenance lock of the Neumarkt court, now town hall and city archive

Stately two-storey building with a hipped roof, box oriels protruding over profiled consoles at the northeast and northwest corners. Former castle chapel with furnishings; Built in 1478 using older components, burned out in the Landshut War of Succession around 1504, reconstruction in 1509/10, some structural changes in the 16th and 18th centuries

Former park "

literature

Christoph A. Dobmeyer: The Hofmark Adlstein. History and stories of the Hofmark Adlstein and its inhabitants in the 19th and 20th centuries. Blenk-Verlag, Neumarkt-Sankt Veit 1999.
Christoph A. Dobmeyer: Adlstein Castle in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit. In: Das Mühlrad 49 (2007), pp. 99-134.
Helmut Hör, Ludwig Morenz: The documents of the St. Veit monastery. 1121-1450. (= Sources and discussions on Bavarian history, New Series, Volume XV), CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1960.
Helmuth Stahleder : Mühldorf am Inn. The district courts of Neumarkt, Kraiburg and Mörmoosen and the city of Mühldorf. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern series I issue 36), Commission for Bavarian History (ed.), Verlag Michael Lassleben, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7696-9897-5 .
Wolfgang Pledl: St. Veit, Adlstein and Baumburg. Three old Bavarian court stamps on the upper Rott. In: Heimat an Rott and Inn 16 (1981), pp. 92-103.