Stallwang Castle

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The Stallwang Castle is an abandoned hunting and court castle in the eponymous part of the municipality of Frauenberg, a district of Landshut in Lower Bavaria .

history

Stallwang Castle on panel 14 of the Bavarian country panels by Philipp Apian (1568)

The time when Stallwang Castle was built is unknown. It was first mentioned in 1568 on a map by the cartographer Philipp Apian .

A building plan by the Landshut court mason, Felix Hirschstetter, has been preserved from 1778, showing the appearance of the building. It is therefore assumed that the castle was renovated or rebuilt during this period. The owner at the time was Joseph August, Count of Toerring-Gronsfeld zu Jettenbach (1753-1826). He was elector chamberlain and court chamber councilor as well as president of the council of state and theater writer. He gave the Benedictine monk and naturalist Candid Huber(1747–1813) received permission to live on Stallwang. He lived in the castle from 1803 until his death. Various documents, contracts and cost estimates show that the dilapidated property with its outbuildings was renovated before and when Huber moved in. A friend of Huber's, the poet Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), lived for a short time on the second floor of the castle from February to July 1809.

After Huber's death, the property was sold and demolished. The outbuildings continued to be used and rebuilt or replaced by new buildings. The exact date of the demolition is not known, but as early as 1835 there was only a moat from the castle. Around 1980 the castle hill and the moat were leveled.

description

Today only small bumps and a round area show where Stallwang Castle was.

The castle was originally 17 meters high, had an almost square footprint of 10 by 10 meters and was surrounded by a moat. The building was divided into a basement, ground floor and two floors. There was a small cattle shed next to the cellar. The kitchen and a small dining room were on the ground floor and a toilet bay was built into the back . A covered staircase led to the entrance at the front. Inside, a separate staircase led to the attic. The master's room and a small castle chapel were on the first floor. The second floor was not developed.

The property included the palace garden with fruit trees that are still in existence today, a large Zehentstadel , the bailiff's house and an inn , in which the bailiff's apartment was located.

literature

  • Karl Dengler: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria , Volume 138, Landshut 2012

Web links

  • Candid-Huber - a reminiscence , detailed description of Candid Huber and Schloss Stallwang of the Association for Archeology City and District Landshut e. V. (PDF, 821 kB, 24 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alois Staudenraus: Topographical-statistical description of the city of Landshut in Bavaria and its surroundings , Verlag Attenkofer, Landshut 1835, pp. 215–216
  2. ↑ Max Udo Kasparek: Landshut , 22nd report of the Natural Science Association Landshut, 1956, p. 44 ff.
  3. ↑ State Archives Landshut : Castle Archives von Stallwang, Fasz. No. 1–230

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '28.3 "  N , 12 ° 13' 38.3"  E