Bärnstein Castle

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Bärnstein Castle
Bärnstein Castle on an engraving by Michael Wening, 1726

Bärnstein Castle on an engraving by Michael Wening , 1726

Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Ring castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Construction: Quarry stone masonry
Place: Bärnstein
Geographical location 48 ° 50 '55.3 "  N , 13 ° 22' 24.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '55.3 "  N , 13 ° 22' 24.9"  E
Height: 602  m above sea level NN
Bärnstein Castle (Bavaria)
Bärnstein Castle

Bärnstein Castle is a former castle near Grafenau in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau in Germany .

It stood in the southeast part of the town of Bärnstein an der Kleine Ohe, southwest of Grafenau . Only small remains of the wall and the castle inn that was built later have been preserved from the once important castle. The building, now known as Bärnstein Castle, was not built until 1890.

history

At the beginning of the 12th century, the nobles von Bernstein, who were subordinate to the Counts of Formbach , built a castle here. In 1207 it fell to the Counts of Hals , who had the castle administered by their keepers after the Bernsteiners died out towards the end of the century . In 1375 Johann Landgraf von Leuchtenberg came into the possession of the County of Hals. On May 7, 1389, he had a castle chapel inaugurated on Bärnstein. In 1417, Bärnstein Castle and Office, together with Ranfels, went to Count Etzel I von Ortenburg for 16,000 guilders . He left the two lords in 1438 for 30,000 guilders to Duke Heinrich of Lower Bavaria .

The Wittelsbachers made Bärnstein the seat of a nurse who, as a captain in front of the forest, was also head of the military area organization and had an armory . During the following centuries the Grafenauer Land was administered by the Bärnstein Regional Court .

Franz von der Trenck occupied Bärnstein with his Pandours during the War of the Austrian Succession in early February 1742 and plundered the area from there. When one of his captains was shot in an ambush on July 16, 1742, he had the castle set on fire and the ruins including the castle chapel blown up.

A new nursing court building was built at another location , which burned down on July 6, 1829. As early as 1799, the seat of the Bärnstein Regional Court was relocated to Grafenau.

The building, now known as Bärnstein Castle, was built around 1890 on the remains of the castle and, following renovation in the 1950s, served as a guesthouse until mid-1980 in the style of the time. The non-listed building was for sale in 2019.

literature

  • Bernhard Grueber, Adalbert Müller: The Bavarian Forest . Morsak Verlag, Grafenau 1993, ISBN 3-87553-415-8 .
  • Joseph Klämpfl: The former Schweinach and Quinzingau. A historical-topographical description . Neue Presse Verlags-GmbH, Passau 1993, ISBN 3-924484-73-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franziska Jungmann-Stadler: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria. Row I / Grafenau: District Court Bärnstein, Nursing Courts Diessenstein and Hals. Edited by the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1992.
  2. ↑ Bärnstein Castle is for sale. Passauer Neue Presse from June 5, 2019, accessed on May 21, 2020.