Wolfstein Castle

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Wolfstein Castle
Wolfstein Castle in Freyung

Wolfstein Castle in Freyung

Creation time : 12th Century
Place: Freyung
Geographical location 48 ° 48 '46.1 "  N , 13 ° 32' 34.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '46.1 "  N , 13 ° 32' 34.1"  E
Height: 650  m above sea level NN
Wolfstein Castle (Bavaria)
Wolfstein Castle

The Wolfenstein Castle is located in Freyung in Lower Bavaria . It gave its name to the Wolfstein district, which was dissolved in 1972 .

Geographical location

The castle is located northwest of downtown Freyung on a ledge surrounded on three sides by the Saußbach .

history

Wolfstein Castle was built as a castle by the eponymous Passau Bishop Wolfger von Erla around 1200. Previously, the surrounding country was in 1193 by Emperor Heinrich VI. ceded to the Passau bishops. In 1301 a place "Purchstol zu Wolferstein and a forest to it" was first mentioned in a document, later Freyung. The castle served as a fortification, administrative seat and episcopal hunting lodge. When the Principality of Passau was dissolved in 1803 , Wolfstein was initially annexed to Austria , three years later the area became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria after the Peace of Pressburg . In 1806 the Bavarian regional court district Wolfstein was set up with its seat at Wolfstein Castle in the rural community of Ort . He belonged to the Lower Danube District (from 1838 Lower Bavaria). In 1862, the new regional court district of Waldkirchen was established from the communities of the regional court districts Wolfstein and Wegscheid, and the former Wolfstein regional court was renamed Freyung regional court. Both regional court districts belonged to the Wolfstein district office. In 1938, the districts were renamed districts and the district offices were renamed district offices. Since the incorporation of the municipality of Ort on April 1, 1954, Wolfstein Castle has stood on the territory of the city of Freyung. In 1972 the Wolfstein district was dissolved.

Current condition

Princely room

The palace ensemble includes a mighty residential tower , built between 1199 and 1204 and 1590, two low wing buildings with arcades from the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, and the castle wall with an inner courtyard closed on four sides. Since 1982 it has housed the district's own art collection Galerie Wolfstein with the collection of contemporary art from Eastern Bavaria; since 1989 also the hunting and fishing museum of the district. This was redesigned and reopened in 2014 with the name Jagd Land Fluss. The Wolfstein service building of the Freyung-Grafenau district is located in a new building directly in front of the castle .

literature

  • Michael Weithmann: Castles and palaces in Lower Bavaria - guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley . Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2013, ISBN 978-3-936511-77-2 , pp. 129-132.
  • Peter Dillinger: Wolfstein Castle. From a protective castle to an art gallery . In: The Bavarian Forest . 101, 2, 2009, ISSN  0405-0851 , pp. 13-18.
  • Paul Praxl : The history of Wolfstein Castle . sn, Freyung 1991.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Wolfstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JAGD LAND FLUSS Museum in Wolfstein Castle ; 741 kB