Castle Ast

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Schloss Ast is a castle in Ast in the municipality of Tiefenbach in the Landshut district in Bavaria .

history

Oberast is first mentioned as Ouuista towards the end of the 9th century . A De Ouste family is often mentioned as a witness in the 11th to 13th centuries. The properties came to various monasteries after the family died out. In the 16th century, Ambrosius Plank from Münchsdorf bought the scattered property of the Holy Cross Monastery and the St. Martin Abbey in Landshut and built his own mansion with Ast Castle in 1591. It was destroyed by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War in 1632, but rebuilt in the decades that followed. An extensive renovation took place in the middle of the 19th century. The castle is privately owned and not open to the public.

Building description

The castle is a listed building (number D-2-74-182-3) and is described as follows:

  • three-storey building with half-hipped roof , on the north side two polygonal corner towers with onion dome , with plaster structure , in the core 1591, significantly rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century, renewed in the middle of the 19th century; with equipment
  • Ancillary building and economy courtyard , partly vaulted on the ground floor, consisting of: administration building, two-storey building with half-hipped roof , 17th / 18th Century; former horse stable, two-storey building with passage, at the same time; former stable and barn, two-storey building with a half-hip, at the same time; Servants' house, residential and administrative building, two-storey building with a crooked roof , with a niche figure on the courtyard side, at the same time, the former tower on the west side demolished in 1928/30; Former sheep barn, single-storey building with a half- hipped roof followed by a two-storey pitched roof , 18th century.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Upper Bavaria . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Tiefenbach (near Landshut) (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '58.4 "  N , 12 ° 5' 20.5"  E