Obing Castle

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Obing Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

The abandoned Obing Castle was located in the municipality of the same name in the Traunstein district of Bavaria .

history

According to the Breves Notitiae from the late 8th century, the area around Obing in Sundergau , it is even spoken of an Obinggau , is designated as belonging to the Archdiocese of Salzburg . In the Obing area, barscalcos ( Barschalk , Free Men, also called Freimänner) are listed, which can be associated with the old tribal duchy of the Agilolfinger . These were presumably used for clearing and given special rights for this. At the beginning of the 13th century, there is evidence of extensive ownership of the Salzburg cathedral chapter in Obing , which even maintains its own land registry and a box here.

Since the beginning of the 11th century, Obing Castle has been owned by the Sieghardingers , who had family ties to the Counts of Ebersberg . The latter also had possessions and vassals in Obing (Brunn von Sura, Harrant von Obing (985), Ratpoto von Ratpotingen). In the high Middle Ages , Obing was a Falkenstein market. Obing Castle was first the seat of the Ebersberg ministers , then the property of the Sieghardinger and in the second half of the 12th century the Falkensteiner. Around 1190, Kuno von Obing, a ministerial of Count Siboto von Falkenstein, sat here. After his death, Konrad von Wasserburg took possession of this area. After the fall of the Wasserburg, Obing passed to Duke Ludwig of Bavaria in 1247 . Obingers appear again and again as state officials (between 1285 and 1399) in Wasserburg (a Heinrich the Elder of Obing is city and district judge of Wasserburg in 1285), Kling and the surrounding area, but Obing Castle no longer belongs to them, but Obing is one of them Personal names have become. Obing is given as a fief to the Lords of Traun by the Bavarian dukes ; Heinrich von Traun is the first to be mentioned, who took part in the battle of Mühldorf in 1322 on the side of the Salzburg nobility . This was followed by the nobles von Laiming , von Loiching and von Wasen (a branch of the Wasen was based in Wasserburg). Hans Suntheimer from a Swabian noble family acquired Obing Castle from the Wasen family. On April 6, 1540, he received the court marrow rights from Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria . According to the Hofmark privilege, the perpetrators of maleficence had to be extradited to the Kling court on the third day after their arrest by officials , a provision that sometimes led to discrepancies.

One of the daughters of the Suntheimer inherited this Hofmark Obing ; she was married to Melchior Wanninger von Spitzenberg and he sold the property to the Munich patrician Hans Christoph Ridler von Pfangern (evidenced in court documents 1604-1628). Even he could not get the profit he had hoped for on Obing and so he sold the Hofmark to Adolf Weiler von Königswiesen . On March 4, 1662, Hofmark Obing fell to Seeon Abbey and remained with it until the secularization of 1803.

Obing was to become the seat of a regional court united with Trostberg in 1803 after the Kling regional court was dissolved. In the enforcement order of August 14, 1803 it is stated: The happy festival is to be established in Obing and a bailiff with four servants is to be accepted for the service of the regional court. But even before Obing was prepared for this, the regional court was moved to Trostberg in 1806.

Building description

According to the engraving by Michael Wening from 1721, the castle was a building of considerable size. The entrance side was flanked by two towers with onion domes. Behind it, two adjoining buildings can be seen, which together with the farm buildings visible further back form a closed square courtyard. A bridge leads to the castle, so there is a ditch in front of it to protect the complex. Outside the trench is a farmyard .

literature

  • Tertulina Burkhard: Landgerichte Wasserburg and Kling. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, issue 15). Michael Laßleben Publishing House, Munich, 1965.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 59.8 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 26.1 ″  E