Haarbach Castle

Wasenharpach Castle on an engraving by Michael Wening from 1710

The Haarbach Castle in the district of the same name in the town of Vilsbiburg in the Landshut district in Lower Bavaria was a former Hofmark Castle , which was finally destroyed by a fire in 1955. It is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments as a ground monument with the number D-2-7539-0164.

history

The first written mentions of Haarbach go back to the last third of the 10th century. The year 980 is particularly noteworthy, when the possession of Haarbach passed to the cathedral monastery of Augsburg after the death of the last Count of Geisenhausen . Haarbach was the ancestral seat of the nobles of Haarbach, who were enfeoffed with the county of Geisenhausen by the cathedral monastery until the second half of the 13th century. In 1268 Heinrich von Haarbach, the last of his line, married Countess Kunigunde von Hals , so that in 1276 Haarbach passed into the possession of the Counts von Hals. The Counts of Ortenburg and Leuchtenberg fought over their inheritance in the middle of the 14th century . On January 2, 1393, Haarbach was finally sold by the former for 10,000 guilders to the dukes Friedrich and Heinrich von Bayern-Landshut , so that the manorial property was converted into a Hofmark.

In 1402 the Hofmark was bought by the aristocratic Hackh family, who took care of the administration of the Geisenhausen county from Haarbach . In 1510, Wolfgang Hackh donated the present-day Haarbach church, a late-Gothic hall building dedicated to Saint Michael . An artistic epitaph in the former castle church still reminds of the founder today. Augustin, the last representative of Hackh, sold the Hofmark on April 12, 1589 to the rent master Stephan Schleich zu Achdorf , who five years later also acquired the Vilssöhl headquarters . Stephan Schleich also took on his office as rent master in Landshut and that of the keeper of Geisenhausen. He died on February 25, 1510 and was buried near St. Martin in Landshut . The following five generations of the lords of Haarbach were all buried in the local church. Among them is Ferdinand Pongraz Schleich, who sold Vilssöhl again in 1689 and rebuilt Haarbach Castle in the following years. This new building can also be seen on the copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1710.

The last representatives of the noble Schleich family were the brothers Ferdinand and Franz Xaver, who sold the castle on February 5, 1817 to Joseph von Edlinger, who was born in Munich and who was previously the judge of Wegscheid and at that time the historian of Griesbach . The Edlinger family kept the castle even after the state reorganization and the associated dissolution of the Hofmark on December 31, 1819. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the then castle owner Alexander von Edlinger, government registrar in Landshut, was allowed to house wounded Germans. On April 25, 1874, he sold the Haarbach estate to the leaseholder of the long-standing brewery, Peter Prenninger. He ran a popular castle tavern with brewery and agriculture . The brewery was given up in 1916. On August 12, 1955, the remains of the castle burned down completely. At the end of 1955 the inn was rebuilt.

description

The earliest description of the castle dates from 1587, shortly before the castle passed into the possession of the Schleich family. The castle was probably destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , but probably not until after 1638. Around 1690, a representative new building in the Baroque style was built, which was first mentioned in 1693 and is shown on a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1710. At that time, the Hofmark, consisting of a castle and surrounding buildings, was known as Wasenharpach or Hackenharpach . The copper engraving shows a stately four-wing complex with numerous onion domes , surrounded by a pond . The castle was located at the intersection of the two local streets in the center of the village, about a hundred meters southwest of the village church in the area of Schloßstraße 10 and 12.

Web links

Entry on Schloss Haarbach in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c vilsbiburg.info: Haarbach and his story by Peter Käser . Retrieved February 21, 2016.
^ ^A ^b Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Village renewal Haarbach . Online at www.vilsbiburg.de. Retrieved February 21, 2016.

48.42921 12.30947Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 45.2 " N , 12 ° 18 ′ 34.1" E

[VIBinfo-1] vilsbiburg.info: Haarbach and his story by Peter Käser . Retrieved February 21, 2016.

[Dorferneuerung-2] A ^b Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Village renewal Haarbach . Online at www.vilsbiburg.de. Retrieved February 21, 2016.