Steinach Castle (Lower Bavaria)

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Steinach Castle in Steinach (Lower Bavaria)

The Steinach Castle is located in the same municipality in the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen (August-Schmieder-Straße 21).

history

1324 Steinach is referred to in the Salbuch of the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter as officium and thus as the center of the Propsteigüter. The cathedral chapter had court rights here and was incorporated into the Straubing judicium . These rights went beyond the lesser jurisdiction and included maleficent jurisdiction over the capital people.

The property of the cathedral chapter of Augsburg can be traced back to a gift from Bishop Bruno of Augsburg . The estate of the cathedral capital was administered by the Counts of Bogen as bailiffs . In Steinach there were two jurisdictions, one of the Augsburg cathedral chapter and one of the ducal ones, which related to the goods that did not belong to the provost. The Vitztum Otto von Straubing had received goods as a fief of the cathedral monastery in 1271. His son Albrecht (the old man) also received this Augsburg fief, but it is not known who was the owner of the ducal. This Albrecht was married to Elsbeth von Toerring and named himself after Staubing and Stainach. In 1299 Albrecht sells his property to Hermann Tuendorfer, a citizen of Regensburg, with the approval of the cathedral chapter . Then the goods fall back to the Albrecht de Stainach miles (Albrecht the Younger). He was a judge in Straubing and handed over his goods to his cousin Jakob dem Steinacher . Jakob sold his Stainach Castle in 1322 to his son-in-law Albrecht von Sattelbogen († before 1336) and received the Geltolfing Castle as payment . Albrecht sat in Stainach from 1322–1334, although he only owned the provost, but not the prince's hats. Albrecht's son Hans is also called von Steinach. He held a variety of functions (1365 ducal councilor and judge zu Deggendorf, in 1369 he founded a chaplaincy in the St. George's Chapel near St. Peter zu Straubing, 1381-1394 he was mayor of Regensburg and calls himself Hans the Staynacher from Adelstayn ).

In 1344 Dietrich Auer buys himself in Steinach and vows to Duke Heinrich that he would never help others with his castle and not sell it against the will of the Duke. 1336 comes Steinach to Egkolf von der Wart . Hans the Waiter follows Egkolf . The series of waiters is continued with Jörg and Marx . His daughter Kathrein was married to a Puchberger from Schloss Winzer , and she bought Steinach Castle with all its accessories from her brothers. In an Oberaltaich document in 1405 and 1414 an Erasm der Warter zu Steinach and in 1424 and 1429 Pangratz Warter zu Stainach appear . In the country table around 1438 Pangratz Warter zu Stainach appear , in 1465 Wolfgang and Cristoff die Wartter zu Stainach and 1490 Marx , the Wartter zu Stainach . In 1510 a Cristoff Wartter zu Stainach is recorded at the Straubing court. As the lords of the court, those waiting had to pay the land tax to the Straubing Regional Court, while the land tax from the Augsburg provost was paid to the Mitterfels Regional Court. Also in the description of the Straubing Regional Court, the castle and Hofmark Steinach were included in Mitterfels.

In 1505, Duke Albrecht the Wise is said to have owned Steinach. 1505-1509 widowed Warterin practiced Anne of Hoehenrain the presentation rights from. This Anna married a Wilhelm Paulsdorfer who was lord of the castle in Steinach from 1509 to 1519. After this Paulsdorfer, another Christoph Warter is Hofmarksherr. He managed to get all the farms in Steinach into his possession and to make Steinach a closed Hofmark. His widow Anna von Freiberg had the new castle built from the stones of the old castle around 1549. Their son Hans Wolf is Protestant been and had to leave Bavaria. The Hofmark was acquired by Wiguläus Hundt , followed by his son Albrecht and again his son Wiguläus . In 1600 the rights of the Court of Justice were confirmed to him. After the Hundt family, the Herwart (Hörwarth) von Hohenburg reside here. 1788 died Cajetan Count von Herwart , in the same year married Count Johann Nepomuk Felix Zech of Lobming the Frederike Herwart and Hofmarksherr.

In 1816, Steinach married Max von Kramer , whose wife Josepha was a born Zech . In 1817, Countess Xaveria von Salern bought the property and sold it to Berchem von Niedertraubling in 1839 . Other owners were Lang von Puchhof, August and Max von Schmieder, Hans Bernd Mayer and Helmut Lindbüchl. Rudolf Presl set up a rehabilitation clinic here. The other owners, the Lindinger family, rededicated Steinach Castle for residential purposes. Today also is Schlossgasthof Steinach by Heidi Marie Kienberger housed.

Steinach Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

Steinach Castle then and now

A castle with the Bavarian dukes as lords of the castle was assumed in Steinach for the period up to 1006, but this cannot be documented. In 1549 the owner of the rulership and knight widow Anna von der Wart built today's manor house from the rubble stones of the old castle, which became the center of the castle estate. According to a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1726, Steinach Castle was a building on a hill and covered with a high pitched roof; there was a built-in onion dome at one corner , and a roof turret was covered with an onion dome. The complex was surrounded by a wall, whereby the wall of the former castle can still be assumed on the west side. Other buildings are integrated into the surrounding wall.

Further redesigns took place under Dr. August von Schmieder at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1902/08 the palace was also rebuilt in the historicist style according to plans by Gabriel von Seidl . Steinach Castle was transformed into a hunting and castle hotel in the mid-1980s. It was converted into a rehabilitation clinic.

The castle is a two-storey listed complex with a polygon tower on the south corner and the castle chapel dedicated to St. George on the northern ground floor. The farm buildings of the castle and depot are the former horse and ox barn, a ground floor angled saddle roof building with Bohemian vaults from the first half of the 19th century, which was expanded in 1906. The former cowshed is an elongated gable roof building, which was built in 1906 by Iwan Bartky according to plans by Gabriel von Seidl on the east side of the castle courtyard. The former barn is a masonry gable roof building with originally open ground floor arcades from the first half of the 19th century on the north side of the depot. The castle park was laid out in the second half of the 19th century.

See also : New Steinach Castle (Lower Bavaria)

literature

  • Wolfgang Freundorfer: Straubing. District court, Rentkastenamt and city. (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria. Issue 32). Commission for Bavarian History, Michael Lassleben Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7696-9879-7 , pp. 237–245.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of Schlosshotel Steinach

Web links

Commons : Steinach Castle  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 20.2 "  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 20.6"  E