Birnbach Castle

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Birnbach Castle

The Birnbach Castle or the former Hofmark Birnbach is located in the Lower Bavarian market Bad Birnbach in the Rottal-Inn district of Bavaria (Graf-Arco-Strasse 1).

history

The Hochstift Passau received the goods of Ruman and Gerhart von Birnbach on June 24, 812 in return for lifelong rights of use (Passau Traditions, No. 64: Ego enim Ruman et Gerhart tradidimus ... in loco ... Pirinpach ). Nothing precise is known about the extent of the donation, but all assets will be handed over cum campis et pratis cultam terram et incultam simulque cum Mancipiis . A secular parish in Birnbach with a Marian patronage may have been founded in Passau and mentioned in a document in 1200. Birnbach is also regarded as the seat of a presumably noble noble family von Birnbach, which appeared in the 12th century. The cathedral chapter of Passau received goods in Birnbach from Bishop Rupert I of Passau between 1160 and 1163. Even in the middle of the 14th century, the Pyrenbach cathedral chapter still owned some goods, according to the Freising Urbar .

After the downfall of the Ortenburgers , six henchman offices are shown for the Wittelsbach dukes in the land register and bailiff register (between 1395 and 1423) for the court on the Rott : Birnbach, Ostendorf, Pfarrkirchen, Morntal, Amt dez Wirsings and Massing. The offices were in turn in Chairman machinations divided, of which there are in the office Pirnpach first gave five and three in 1752 (Hirschbach, Birnbach, Hitzing). The duke also had a court in Niederpiernpach and a Vogtei over Obernpiernpach .

In 1410 Görg the Sulzberger sold the farm and the Hofmark zu Birnbach to his brother Christian the Perger zu Perach . In 1470 Wolfgang Westerkirchner is proven here. In 1522 Birnbach was passed on to the children (Stephan, Peter and Anna) of the deceased. As rulers acted Hans Viergolt to Schreihof and Hans Tattenbach to Tattenbach . From the fiefdom of Peter Westerkirchner from May 12th 1528 it emerges that he had inherited the shares of his mother and brother. In 1531, Birnbach passed into the hands of Christoph Emhofers , who was the fief of his wife Anna Westkirchner . Adam Walchsinger was the owner of Birnbach as early as 1538 . In 1580 Hans Vorstauer got Birnbach as a fiefdom as the son-in-law of Adam Walchsinger's widow . Between 1606 and 1609 he was deprived of jurisdiction over his single-tier property and transferred to the Pfaffenhofen Regional Court.

Birnbach Castle

In 1616 Hans Heinrich Starzauer bought Birnbach from Hans Georg Vorstauer , the son of the aforementioned Hans Vorstauer. This was granted the lower jurisdiction again. After his death, his sons Johann Ardolph and Urban received the fiefs of Birnbach, Brunndobl and Neudau on July 3, 1635. After the death of the last Starzhausener, Cassian Schmid von Haslach , Pfleger zu Aibling and Privy Council Vice Chancellor and obrist provost, bought the seat in Birnbach in 1672. For his services he is freed from the feudal upper and Birnbach will be available from March 14, 1673 and his heir own . This family stayed on Birnbach until 1803.

Due to bankruptcy, the property was then sold to the widowed Electress of Bavaria, Maria Leopoldina . This sold him on to the royal lawyer Dr. by Nibler . After the property, the brewery and the economy had been sold, he sold him to Anton Gerhager , the merchant and mayor of Landau . In 1831 he sold the property to the Lords of Lang .

On August 1, 1822, Birnbach was confirmed as a second class patrimonial court . From 1831 until his death in 1843 Lorenz von Lang was the owner of the Birnbach estate. In 1838 Birnbach came from the district court of Pfarrkirchen to the district court of Griesbach . Birnbach's requests to remain with Pfarrkirchen were finally rejected in 1922.

In the 19th century, the Counts of Arco-Valley acquired the medieval estate not far from the church and built a brewery on the property of the former aristocratic residence. Part of the former castle is still preserved; it is a three-story plastered building with a half- hipped roof and a bay window on the west side; the building is likely to date from the 18th century.

literature

  • Renate Blickle: Griesbach Regional Court. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 19). Commission for Bavarian History, Michael Laßleben Verlag , Munich 1970.
  • Ilse Louis: Parish churches. The nursing courts Reichenberg and Julbach and the rule Ering-Frauenstein (inter alia pp. 255-256). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 31). Commission for Bavarian History, Michael Lassleben Verlag, Munich 1973. ISBN 3-7696-9878-9 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '42.3 "  N , 13 ° 5' 32.5"  E