Loifling moated castle

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Loifling Castle in the Traitsching community in the Cham district

The Loifling moated castle is located in the Loifling district of the Upper Palatinate community of Traitsching in the Cham district of Bavaria (Hofmarkstrasse 25–31).

history

Around 1150, the ministerial of Diepoldinger Hermann , son of Wolfram von Levling , is mentioned for the first time when he transfers goods to the Obermünster monastery . In the 15th century the water festival was owned by the Poissl family and stayed with this family until the 19th century. After 1697 this family called themselves Barons von Poißl von und zu Loifling, Herren auf Loifling, Haunkenzell and Stallwang . However, in 1636 a Stephan Clingshirn was temporarily authenticated as the owner, but this was probably due to the particular circumstances of the time. In 1818 the Poissl sold their property to a Grafwallner ; he is then ennobled and in 1820 the establishment of a second class patrimonial court is approved. In 1833 the state acquires all of the Dominicals and also the judicial rights from Loifling.

The moated castle has been owned by the community of Traitsching since 1988, which expanded the castle into a communal cultural center. The "Loifling Water Castle Promotion Association" tries to preserve the castle.

Loifling Castle after an engraving by Michael Wening from 1721

Construction

As dendrochronological studies show, the castle was fundamentally rebuilt in 1457. Diers took place under Ulrich Poißl , who was the ducal magistrate in Cham between 1448 and 1457 and to whom the coat of arms stone with the year and the name Ulreich Poyssel in Gothic letters on the outside of the castle chapel reminds us.

After the engraving by Michael Wening in 1721, the castle was a complex composed of several components, which was partially protected by a crenellated wall and a moat.

Loifling Castle is now a trapezoidal four-sided complex that was expanded into a moated castle in the 14th and 15th centuries. Extensions and changes took place in the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries, whereby the late medieval fortifications were gradually removed. The residential tower, a three-storey hipped roof building , which essentially goes back to the late 14th century, is striking , its roof dates from the 18th century. The three-storey, cubic main residential building of the castle with its hipped roof and the semicircular tower, with so-called spade notches with wider, spade-shaped feet, can be seen as a medieval building stock . On the south and west sides of the castle courtyard there are enclosing walls of the palace and parts of the defensive wall that date back to the second half of the 15th century. Also worth mentioning is a deep well with a brick shaft.

To the north is the chapel wing with the former castle chapel and the current branch church of St. John the Baptist . This is a two-storey gable roof building with an onion roof turret . The core of the chapel dates from 1456/57 and was built by Ulrich I. Poyßl ; it was extended in 1740, 1893 and 1905 and connected to the inn and brewery building by a basket arched gate entrance (the former gate tower). A complete renovation of the chapel took place in 1994.

literature

  • Max Piendl: The Cham district court (pp. 42–43). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 8). Commission for Bavarian History, Michael Lassleben Verlag, Munich 1955.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 14.7 ″  E