Hauzenstein Castle

The Hauzenstein Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Castle Road 4 in the district Hauzenstein the community Wenzenbach in the district of Regensburg ( Bayern ).

history

A Hauzenstein castle is first mentioned in 1372. The castle was probably the youngest castle in the Regensburg district . At that time the owner was a Hermann Hauzendorfer. Paulsdorf was later owned by the Freidl and Brentano von Brentheim family from 1592 . The current complex was built at the end of the 17th century by the Freidl family using stones from the old castle that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . It has been privately owned by the Count Walderdorff family since 1830 . In 1915 the two-storey side wing was added.

building

The complex has a striking bell tower with an onion roof and a three-storey hipped roof building and plastered structures as the main building. At the rear there is a two-storey wing with a gable roof and a two-storey mansard roof with a dwelling from the 17th / 18th century. Century. The palace chapel from around 1835 is located in the pillared hall on the ground floor. The chapel was probably originally a horse stable. The chapel is a square four-storey tower with a clock, pyramid roof and onion-crowned hood. The goal posts with seated lions and the cast iron fence date from around 1870. The former administrator's house (Schloßstraße 3) is a two-storey, grouped solid building with crooked roofs and plastered structure and was built in 1902. In the south of the complex there is a baroque garden . Isolated remains of the old medieval castle can be seen near the castle in the forest.

Web links

Entry on Hauzenstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".

literature

Georg Dehio : Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate - Handbook of German Art Monuments , Drexler Jolanda / Hubel Achim (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991

49.10055 12.17823Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 2 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 41.6 ″ E