Grabenstätt Castle

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Copper engraving by Michael Wening in the Topographia Bavariae around 1700

Grabenstätt Castle is a historic castle in the municipality of Grabenstätt in Chiemgau , which is now used as the town hall and guest house. As Hofmarkschloss , it was the manor of the open Hofmark Grabenstätt.

history

Grabenstätt was first mentioned in a document on June 8, 959 in a document from King Otto the Great from Salzburg . The area around Grabenstätt is led at the beginning of the 10th century as "comitatus Teginberti" (County of Reginbert). This administrative area essentially comprised old populated land. Grabenstätt, which was initially a Salzburg land register , came back to Bavaria in 1275. The area remained arable in Salzburg, but judicially and under state sovereignty it fell to Bavaria. Grabenstätt Castle became the seat of an open Hofmark, whose owners were the Counts of Rheinstein and Tattenbach in the 18th century . In 1803 the Hofmark was dissolved. A major fire in 1834 largely destroyed the Grabenstätter Castle. Major von Mayerhofen, who restored the castle and had a modern brewery built, exchanged the entire Grabenstätter property for the post office and restaurant in Markt Teisendorf for Philipp Fürst, post keeper and innkeeper from Teisendorf. Three years after a second major fire in 1862, Baron Ludwig von Finster came into possession of the property. The subsequent owners of the castle and the brewery were the Counts of Löwenstein-Scharffeneck and the Mayer family from Wasserburg. After the First World War and the decline of the brewery there were several changes of ownership before Clemens Freiherr von Wrede acquired the property in 1924. In 1982, the community of Grabenstätt bought the castle from the von Wrede family. It was converted into a town hall with a guest house and the municipal administration moved into it in December 1995.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 , p. 153-154 .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 33 ″  N , 12 ° 32 ′ 29 ″  E