Liebenau moated castle (Zandt)

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Liebenau moated castle
Alternative name (s): Liebenau Castle, Grub Castle
Creation time : probably early 13th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Preserved essential parts
Standing position : Nobles
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Zandt -Liebenau
Geographical location 49 ° 7 '24 "  N , 12 ° 43' 9.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '24 "  N , 12 ° 43' 9.3"  E
Height: 500  m above sea level NHN
Liebenau moated castle (Bavaria)
Liebenau moated castle

The moated castle Liebenau , also called Schloss Liebenau or Schloss Grub , is a moated castle in the Grub district on an artificial castle hill in the Liebenau district of the Upper Palatinate community of Zandt in the Bavarian district of Cham .

history

The moated castle was probably built at the beginning of the 13th century by the Lords of Liebenau. Around 1311 a "Hainricus Ramsperger de Libennoe" was mentioned in connection with a fortified complex, on which "Andre Räckell von Liebenaw" was probably also sitting in 1440.

1472 gave Duke Albrecht IV. Of Bayern Munich with a certificate Augustin Fischbeck, "that bought the sicz Liebenaw and pepaut" which Hofmark and precious freedom . Augustin Fischbeck expanded and expanded the facility.

After 1500 the castle came into the possession of Hans Paulsdorfers, the lords of Altrandsberg and the lords of Nothracht , after which the time as an independent Hofmark ended. Today the facility is privately owned and used for agriculture.

description

The castle complex, which is about three meters high and 40 by 40 meters large, is surrounded by a ten-meter-wide moat and has an entrance in the southwest. In the east corner is the two-storey main building made of quarry stone with a gently sloping gable roof , the core of which can be dated to the period after 1472.

The aristocratic seat, typical of the region, is named in 1606 as a “bricked caste ... a moat around it” and in 1737 as a “seat and bricked box surrounded by a moat”. In more modern times, the farm building in the north-western part was changed and the defensive walls and gate removed.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the south-eastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period. Volume 2: Catalog . Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , p. 109 ff.

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