Mariakirchen Castle

View of the moated castle

Mariakirchen Castle, gate tower

Michael Wening : Engraving of the moated castle around 1701

The castle Mariakirchen is a palace complex in Mariakirchen the market Arnstorf in the Rottal-Inn in Bavaria . The building is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

A local noble family has been mentioned in a document in Mariakirchen since 1130 and is also known from the 12th to 14th centuries. In the 14th century Mariakirchen came to the Chamerauer . In 1398 an Ulrich Chamarauer is mentioned here. In 1453 the barons Alban and Hans von Closen bought the Hofmark from the Chamerauers. Georg von Closen and Barbara von Notthafft , the then owner, built here in 1550, the water tower , as also in its present form exist (it is here already 1597 rule wolerpauth Castle mentioned). Of these, the combined stone testifies Renaissance - Portal -Nothaft Closen in the courtyard of the castle with the wedding coat of arms. In 1663 the Hofmark was acquired by the Closen zu Haidenburg. In 1689 Franz Freiherr von Pfetten exercised jurisdiction here. The Hofmark remained in the hands of the Baron Pfetten family until 1810 . Baron von Pfetten, royal chamberlain , sold this to Gotlieb von Gmeiner († 1820). Mariakirchen came to the Fallot family by inheritance under the condition of a Fideikommiss and the acceptance of his family name (Fallot von Gmeiner). Between 1820 and 1848 Mariakirchen was a 2nd class patrimonial court .

From 1848 the castle was owned by the Counts of Deym .

Mariakirchen Castle then and now

After the engraving by Michael Wening from 1721, the castle was a three- story building with four- story , pointed-roofed towers on the sides. A bridge led to a four-story gate tower with a round-arched portal and a gable roof . The facility was designed with farm buildings within another moat. Here, too, a bridge led to a small gate tower. A park with an octagonal pavilion can be seen outside the complex .

The complex of the Middle Ages was a moated castle with a double moat , which was fed by the Kollbach flowing 360 meters to the north . A moat that had been buried over the decades was exposed again by a new bridge. The second moat still exists on three sides. The swallowtail pinnacles are from recent times.

Schlossbräu Mariakirchen

Memorial plaque to the builder of today's Schlossbräu building

In 2002 Lindner AG from Arnstorf acquired the moated castle. The palace complex with the Schlossbräu Mariakirchen was extensively renovated and the palace was brought back to life. Today it serves as a hotel, as a training center and as a venue for cultural events. As part of the European Weeks, concerts will take place in the courtyard of the palace, in bad weather in the newly designed ballroom. In the former stables with the completely renovated vaults (built in 1785 by Ignaz Thaddäus Reich, Baron von Pfetten) there is now an inn with a brewery. In addition, a building has been converted into a hotel.

Parts of the castle building house the Marienkirchen Castle campus of the Deggendorf University of Technology with various institutes as well as a research center of the Tyrolean private university UMIT in Hall in Tirol .

literature

Ilse Louis: Parish churches. The nursing courts Reichenberg and Julbach and the rule Ering-Frauenstein. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, issue 31). Verlag Michael Laßleben, Munich, 1973 (pp. 273-278). ISBN 3 7696 9878 9 .