Gerzen Castle

Gerzen Castle today

Copper engraving by Michael Wening in the Topographia Bavariae around 1700

Castle Gerzen is in Gerzen in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut situated castle . It forms the eastern end of the rectangular layout of the market square in Gerzen.

history

Gerzen (first mentioned in 887 as "Jorcin") is one of the oldest places in the Vilstal. The place belonged to the Duchy of Bavaria and since 1597 formed a closed Hofmark of the barons of Vieregg , whose seat was Gerzen Castle. The renaissance structure of the castle dates from 1562, the baroque castle chapel from 1695. In 1833 the former Bavarian State Minister Maximilian Graf von Montgelas acquired the castle. The castle park with enclosure was created in 1903.

In 1618 the castle received permission to brew beer. It was looted during the occupation by the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War . During the Second World War, the Munich City Museum relocated valuable exhibits to protect Munich from the bombing raids . The Montgelas family lived in the castle until 2009 before they sold it. At the beginning of 2012, the Schloss-Wirtschaft Gerzen opened its hotel after extensive renovation work, for which it received the Bavarian Monument Preservation Prize 2014.

Building description

The castle is a two-storey, gable-free Renaissance complex with a steep pitched roof , facade structure with window frames and cornices from the years 1560/62. The castle chapel in the arcaded extension with an onion-crowned corner tower was built around 1695.

literature

• Georg Dehio (Gre.): Bavaria. Volume 2: Lower Bavaria (= Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 (EA Munich 1964).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rescue of a monument. In: Landshuter Zeitung . December 9, 2014.

Web links

• Schlosswirtschaft Gerzen

Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 23.9 "  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 40.7"  E