Burgruine Karlstein
castle, chateau
1002m
Oberbayern, Bayern

The castle ruin Karlstein is a castle ruin on a rock in the Bad Reichenhaller district Karlstein in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria

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Previous names
Burgruine Karlstein, Burgruine Karlstein
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Description

The castle ruin Karlstein is a castle ruin on a rock in the Bad Reichenhaller district Karlstein in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria .

The ruin is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments, medieval and early modern artefacts are noted as soil monuments.

History

Konrad von Peilstein had the fortification built shortly before 1150. The Peilstein family, who are based in Lower Austria , probably followed a call from the Archbishop of Salzburg, who had appointed the Peilstein count as his secular representative in court (Vogt). Towards the end of the 12th century, a castle captain named "Karl" lived here, after whom the entire complex was probably named. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1208.

In 1218 Karlstein came to the Bavarian Duke, who from then on entrusted the maintenance of the castle to his servants. Since the end of the Middle Ages, Karlstein had the lower jurisdiction over a larger neighborhood, the so-called Hofmark . For life, the Bavarian Duke gave Burg and Hofmark Karlstein to Reichenhall patricians or high-ranking officials who were looking for a place of residence appropriate to their status. Under the powerful Fröschl von Marzoll and Tauerstein family, the castle was converted into a palace and remained in this form until it fell into disrepair at the end of the 17th century.

The generously designed round arched gate has been preserved from this late period. Next to it rose as an elongated building with a retracted rectangular gate, which was dedicated to St. Andreas castle chapel . Just as the chapel was built when the castle was built, the surrounding wall also dates from before 1150. In the west of the castle, the heavily dilapidated outer wall was torn down in 1671.

In the middle of the castle there are still the remains of an almost square cistern in which the rainwater was collected. At the highest point of the courtyard stands a round tower with a -, the high input equipped - the function of the keep filled. It dates back to the first half of the 13th century, the time when Karlstein passed into the possession of the Bavarian Duke.

After being closed to the public for a long time, the Bavarian State Forests, as the owner of the castle, carried out a fundamental renovation of the complex in accordance with historical monuments from July to mid-December 2012. A 6 m² hole in the western wall was closed, the walls repaired and partly supported and the plaster was renewed in many places. The tree growth inside the castle walls and outside on the rock was partially removed, the lintels were reinforced with new oak planks and the footpath to the castle was repaired or relocated in places.

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