Neunussberg Castle

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Neunussberg Castle
Southwest side of the residential tower of Neunussberg Castle

Southwest side of the residential tower of Neunussberg Castle

Creation time : 1340 to 1350
Castle type : Höhenburg in local location
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Noble
Place: Viechtach - Neunussberg
Geographical location 49 ° 4 '56.5 "  N , 12 ° 56' 27"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '56.5 "  N , 12 ° 56' 27"  E
Height: 698.2  m above sea level NHN
Neunussberg Castle (Bavaria)
Neunussberg Castle

The castle Neunußberg is today only as ruins preserved former late medieval and early modern nobility castle , located in the same Kirchdorf Neunußberg , east of Viechtach in the Lower Bavarian district of Regen in Germany .

The mighty square residential tower , remains of the enclosing wall with a three-quarter round shell tower and the renovated castle chapel from 1356 are still present today. The tower has a square floor plan with a side length of around 20 meters and a height of around 25 meters.

The chapel has a baroque interior. The high altar was built around 1720, the altarpiece depicts St. Michael. A picture of St. Raphael with Tobias (around 1650), a Mater Dolorosa (around 1700) and a simple statue of St. Michael (17th century) are part of the interior.

Geographical location

The former castle complex is located in the northern part of the Bavarian Forest at 698.2  m above sea level. NHN high and flat summit of the Neunussberger Schlossberg , which rises above the valley of the Black Rain . The ruin is about 290 meters above the valley and 3,950 meters east of the Catholic parish church of St. Augustine in Viechtach , in the village of the same name, Neunussberg.

On the opposite side of the valley of the Black Rain lies the ancestral castle of the Lords of Nussberg, Altnußberg Castle , and a few kilometers southwest of the Kollnburg castle ruins .

history

Konrad der Nussberger (bust at the old town hall in Viechtach)

The Lords of Nussberg, who have been documented since the first half of the 12th century, were originally ministerials of the Counts of Bogen . After the counts died out in 1242, they came under the sovereignty of the Wittelsbach family , and among them the Lords of Nussberg were among the most respected knight families in the Bavarian Forest. In 1360, Duke Albrecht I of Niederbayern-Straubing transferred the marshal's office in Lower Bavaria to the family as a hereditary fief.

From 1340 to 1350 Konrad von Nussberg had Neunussberg Castle built. The family then left the previous headquarters at Altnussberg Castle.

In 1466, 41 noblemen of the Bavarian Forest joined forces to protect their rights against Duke Albrecht IV (1465–1508). The members of this league called themselves "Böckler" after the goat in their coat of arms. Warmund and Konrad von Nussberg also belonged to them. A campaign by Duke Albrecht IV in 1468/1469 brought the Bund a devastating defeat in the Böckler War .

Because of the defeat, Warmund and Konrad had to sell Neunussberg Castle to the Duke, Warmund in 1469 for an annual pension, Konrad in 1470 for the small Linden Castle .

In 1564, a lightning strike destroyed the castle, which came to the Wittelsbach family as a ruin after the Lords of Nussberg died out in 1569.

Already in the second half of the 16th century, the militarily useless complex was no longer inhabited and fell into disrepair.

  • Site plan of the Neunussberg castle ruins from 1926

  • Castle and town of Neunussberg from the north

  • Castle chapel

  • Three-quarter tower of the surrounding wall

  • South-east side of the residential tower

Newer development

On May 21, 1889, the castle was acquired by the owners at that time, Johann and Franziska Fritz, by the Viechtach Forest Association, which later became the Viechtach section of the Bavarian Forest Association . The first renovation was carried out in 1939. Further renovation work ensured the preservation of the complex, which developed into a place for castle festivals with music and dance. Since the summer of 1968 that are on the castle Anger Burgfestspiele listed on a text by Karl Gareis, whose historical background is the knight uprising 1468th

The tower can be accessed as a viewing tower against payment of the “castle groschen”, which is requested as a donation when entering the castle .

literature

Web links

Commons : Burg Neunussberg  - collection of images