Herrngiersdorf Castle

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Copper engraving by Michael Wening in the Topographia Bavariae around 1700
Herrngiersdorf Castle from the southeast (2010)

Herrngiersdorf Castle is a baroque castle in Herrngiersdorf , a village in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim on the edge of the Hallertau . It used to be the seat of a Hofmark . The Herrngiersdorf Castle Brewery has existed since 1131 and describes itself as the oldest private brewery in the world.

history

The castle originally belonged to the Counts of Sempt-Ebersberg , and from 1037 to the Geisenfeld monastery they founded . In the 12th and 13th centuries, but for the first time in 1131, the monastery ministerials were recorded as lords of the castle . In the 15th century, the owners of the Hofmark and the castle were the Nothaft von Podenstein , in the 16th century the lords of Seiboldsdorf , and from 1654 to 1822 the barons of Guggemos. In 1709, Albrecht von Guggenmos had the current building built in place of the old moated castle . From 1822 to 1823 the Bavarian Maximilian von Montgelas owned Schloss Herrngiersdorf. Subsequently it belonged to the Lords of Lottner, including Ludwig von Lottner , a member of the Reichstag . In 1875 the castle went into private ownership; first it was bought by Jakob Mühlbauer. It has been owned by the Pausinger family, originally from Landshut , since 1899 . In 1976 it was extensively restored . The castle brewery has been run by Paul Pausinger VI since 1995. guided.

description

The stately main building was built in 1709 in the baroque style. The three-storey , cube-like hipped roof building with nine to eight window axes is structured by baroque fields and corner pilasters. The wide red pilaster strips form a contrast to the whitewashed walls. The portal is framed by two pilasters and highlighted by a simple triangular gable . The baroque barrel vaults with stitch caps in the rooms on the ground floor and the three-armed staircase with wooden balustrades between square stone pillars are remarkable .

The palace complex also includes a farm building from the 18th or 19th century, a single-storey, angular gable roof building with a dovecote and a smokehouse in the roof, as well as a cowshed built in 1884 with a flat gable roof. The moat , which was probably built in the 18th century, is only partially preserved.

literature

  • Auer, Johann: Fortifications and castles in the Kelheim district from the Neolithic to the late Middle Ages. 2008
  • Brix, Michael (arrangement): Bayern II: Niederbayern. In: Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments, Munich 1988

Web links

Commons : Schloss Herrngiersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anton Eckardt (ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Rottenburg. Oldenbourg, Munich 1930, p. 63f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '25.8 "  N , 12 ° 4' 3.9"  E