Castle walls

This article explains the castle in Upper Bavaria, to the castle in the Upper Palatinate that has been removed today, see Castle Mauern (Escheldorf) .

Castle walls after completion of the renovation in 2011

Copper engraving of the castle walls by Michael Wening around 1700

Schloss Mauern is a small, baroque-style Hofmark castle in walls in the Freising district . Today it is the town hall of the municipality of Mauern and the seat of the administrative association Mauern .

history

By excavations of the Archaeological Society in the district of Freising was found that walls was settled before about 7500 years ago and since then almost continuously has a lively settlement. In recent investigations in the castle, post marks of a previous building were discovered, which dates from around 1000 AD. As early as the decades before 1133, the tradition of the Moosburger Stift St. Kastulus attests to a family that named itself after the walls. Further written evidence of the construction is missing, only the Bavarian Hofmark description from 1597 contains a note about the castle of walls. The castle with the Hofmark was owned by numerous noble families over the years. From 1544 to 1585, the Kuttenau rulers exercised court justice. Their successors were Preysing from 1585 to 1641 . The old Hofmark was burned down during the Thirty Years' War. In 1692 Hofmark and the castle were acquired by Johann Georg, Count von Seiboldsdorf , and auctioned off less than a hundred years later due to the mismanagement of his descendants. The Basselet families of La Rosée and Ostini followed as owners . In 1672 a replacement building was built, which was expanded around 1689/90. In 1848 the castle finally lost its sovereign importance with the abolition of patrimonial jurisdiction and was used as an inn and brewery building from 1876. Today's castle, a simple two-storey baroque building with a mansard roof, was sold by the last owner, Count von Moy, in 2001 to the municipality of Mauern, who had it converted into the municipality's town hall in the following years .

literature

• Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Monuments in Bavaria. Volume I.2. Upper Bavaria. Munich 1985.
• Franz Hagl: village history of walls . Walls 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the administrative community of walls
2. ^ Wörner: Heimatbuch Hörgertshausen, 1982, p. 32ff
3. ↑ Remodeled to the town hall: renovation of the Hofmarkschloss walls. Bayerische Staatszeitung No. 24 of June 17, 2011 ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 508 kB) 

Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 58.5 ″  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 47.5 ″  E