Niederhornbach Castle

Niederhornbach Castle

Niederhornbach Castle is a castle in Niederhornbach in the municipality of Pfeffenhausen in the Landshut district in Bavaria .

history

Hornbach was a Hofmark owned by the Ebersberg Monastery , which enfeoffed this Hofmark to the noble family of Marolding since the middle of the 15th century. The last two young Maroldingers stayed in the Thirty Years' War in 1636 . The elector donated the Hofmark to the Jesuits from the estates that had fallen back to the sovereign . It should first go to the Munich Jesuits, but in 1639 it fell temporarily to the Jesuit College in Landshut . After it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, it was rebuilt in 1666. From 1652/1658 until the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773, the Hofmark was subordinate to the Munich Jesuit College . Towards the end of the 18th century, the Hofmark Hornbach belonged to the Counts of Lodron .

Building description

The castle is a listed building (number D-2-74-172-46) and is described as follows:

• Three-wing complex above the medieval core, reconstruction in 1665
• Main building, two-storey solid construction with a gable roof and two corner towers, east wing with portico and arcades to the courtyard.

Web links

Commons : Niederhornbach Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria II. Lower Bavaria . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1988.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Pfeffenhausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 27.2 "  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 39.9"  E