Altenburg Castle (Bavaria)

Entrance to Altenburg Castle

Altenburg Castle in the 18th century (engraving by Michael Wening)

Niederaltenburg manor

Altenburg Castle is a castle on the high bank of the Mangfall in the Altenburg district of the Feldkirchen-Westerham community in the Rosenheim district . It is located in the west of the municipality south of Aschbach at an altitude of 633  m above sea level. NN . Below the castle in the Mangfall valley is the Niederaltenburg estate, which used to belong to the castle.

history

A watchtower is said to have stood in Altenburg as early as Roman times. Around 750 the place is mentioned in the Fagana list of goods .

In 1050 a castle was built by the Falkensteiners , which was destroyed and razed by the Wittelsbach Duke Otto II of Bavaria . Around 1258 a larger castle was rebuilt by the Lords of Schalchdorf. In 1434, Count Otto II von Maxlrain acquired the Altenburg and enlarged it. In 1560 the Altenburg was rebuilt into its current form under Duke Albrecht von Bayern . During the Thirty Years' War the castle was the only castle in Bavaria to defy the attacking Swedes.

After several changes of ownership, Altenburg Castle came into the possession of Count Georg Wilding von Königsbrück, Prince von Radali, from Baron Friedrich zu Hofstetten in 1879, who used it as a summer residence. In 1953 it was sold to an evangelical missionary service and a school for social girl professions started. From 1992 until the end of 2011 it was used as a seminar and meditation center , as a house of silence . In 2012 the cosmetic surgeon Werner Mang purchased the system. However, he did not realize his plan to set up a therapy center for psychosomatic diseases, but sold the castle again at the end of 2014 or beginning of 2015. Another doctor is now planning a surgical clinic there.

Building description

Four-wing system around an inner courtyard, three-storey structure with hipped roofs, south-western central projection and north-east upstream three-storey gate with roof turrets and tent roof, in the middle of the 16th century, remodeling in the 18th century, restoration and conversion in 1879; with equipment; Connecting bridge over the former moat, 18th century; Park in the form of a landscape garden, merging into the adjacent forest, 2nd half of the 19th century.

literature

• List of monuments for Feldkirchen-Westerham (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 141 kB)

Web links

Commons : Altenburg Castle (Bavaria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.rosenheim24.de/rosenheim/mangfalltal/feldkirchen-westerham/feldkirchen-westerham-prof-mang-verkauf-schloss-altenburg-schoenheitschirurg-meyer-4682688.html

Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 58 "  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 44"  E