Rohrbach Castle (Upper Bavaria)

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Rohrbach Castle, east facade
Gatehouse, on the right the castle

The Rohrbach castle stands in the old center of the Upper Bavarian village Rohrbach in district Pfaffenhofen . Together with the church of John the Baptist , the tavern and the town hall, it forms the former center of the community. Rohrbach Castle was the seat of the closed Hofmark Rohrbach . It is a typical Hofmark castle with farm buildings and the castle wall.

history

The family of the "Lords of Rohrbach" was first mentioned in the 11th century with "Tassilo de Rohrbach". Ancestral seat of the Lords of Rohrbach was a fortified castle on the Rohrbacher Turmberg. It was destroyed in 1445 by Ludwig the Bearded , Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt in a military conflict with the dukes of Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Landshut . Hofmark Rohrbach has been occupied since around this time. It was not until the 16th century that the dilapidated castle was abandoned and the current castle was built in the center of the village at that time. With Johann, Heinrich and Moritz, the family of the Lords of Rohrbach, who gained importance as ministerials of the Wittelsbach dukes, died out in the male line in 1709 .

In 1711 the palace and Hofmark were acquired by Max Emanuel von Bertrand, Count of Perusa. He was followed in 1731 by Maximilian Klemens Freiherr von Dürsch auf Rohrbach, Rohr , Gambach and Langweid, who had the castle rebuilt from 1734 to 1737. His son, Rittmeister Kajetan Freiherr von Dürsch, made Hofmark and Schloss available to the silk ribbon manufacturer Johann Rudolf Meyer from Aarau in 1802/03 , who founded a Swiss factory colony here . On January 1, 1816, Kajetan von Dürsch sold the castle and Hofmark to the royal finance director of the Inn district , Alois Koch, who was ennobled in 1817 by the Bavarian King Maximilian I. Josef as "Alois Edler von Koch auf Rohrbach and Sünzhausen ". His descendant Franz Edler von Koch was district administrator of Pfaffenhofen from 1946 to 1958. The “Noble von Koch auf Rohrbach” own the castle to this day.

Building description

The original fortified castle stood on the Turmberg. It was not rebuilt after the destruction in the middle of the 15th century. It was not until the middle of the 16th century that the castle was rebuilt in what was then the center of Rohrbach. It is a three-storey building that was extended in 1734 with a stepped tail gable and redesigned in Baroque style . Above the risalit is the alliance coat of arms of Baron Maxmilian Klemens Baron von Dürsch and his wife Anna, nee. from Baar. Above the coat of arms on the gable of the roof there is a replica of the Scheyr cross . In the middle of the 18th century, the Barons von Dürsch built the gatehouse with a mansard hipped roof. After the First World War, the owner at that time, Franz Edler von Koch, had the castle repaired under the direction of the architect Konrad August Reiss. On the advice of the architect Gabriel von Seidl , he had it painted light yellow and red in the previous colors.

The equipment is almost unchanged; Noteworthy include an ancestral hall and splendid tiled stoves.

In the east wing of the palace complex, in the area of ​​the farm buildings, there is a baroque hop kiln .

Castle area

  • View from the north.

  • West facade.

  • Fortified church at the castle, view from the north.

  • Fortified church of St. John the Baptist

  • Gatehouse, seen across the churchyard wall.

  • Old tavern on Schlossplatz.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss in Rohrbach (Ilm)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Adelsmatrikel Adelige M 29, No. 28, Dürsch's testimony, Munich June 9, 1813. Peter Genner: After the end of monastery rule - Swiss revolutionaries in the Pfaffenwinkel. In: Der Welf, Yearbook of the Historisches Verein Schongau, 2013, pp. 69–192, here: p. 86.

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '45 "  N , 11 ° 33' 40.7"  E