Top 16 Castles around Berching

The castle building is a two-story, gable-roofed structure with a central projection and a dormer. The building's core is medieval, and the gateway dates from the 17th/18th century. Attached to the west is a deconsecrated castle chapel with plasterwork, a bay tower, and an onion dome dating from 1556. The eastern wing is a three-story, gable-roofed structure with a northern balcony and also plasterwork, dating from the 17th century.

Wildenstein Castle The ancestral seat is named after Wildenstein Castle and the village of Wildenstein. As part of the free Franconian knighthood, the family was organized in the knightly canton of Altmühl. Several family members were bailiffs or caretakers of the surrounding territories. Three members of the Wildenstein family were bailiffs of Hof in the 15th and 16th centuries. The family died out in the middle of the 17th century. The destruction of the ancestral seat of Wildenstein was initiated during the German Peasants' War and ended in the Second Margrave War. The bailiff's house below the castle ruins served as the seat of bailiffs for a long time. The castle building is a two-story, gable-roofed building with a central projection with a dormer. The building is essentially medieval, the entrance gate dates from the 17th/18th century. To the west is a deconsecrated castle chapel with plasterwork, a bay tower and an onion dome from 1556. The eastern wing is a three-storey gable roof building with a northern balcony and also plasterwork, which dates from the 17th century. To the north of this is the brewhouse; This is a two-storey gable roof building with a half-timbered upper floor and brickwork from 1922. The ensemble also includes the former brewery restaurant, a single-storey mansard hipped roof building with dormer windows, corner bay windows, plasterwork and garages in neo-baroque style from 1922. It also includes a stable, an eaves-facing gable roof building with gable walls made of quarry stone from the 18th century, a former economic wing, this is a multi-storey building with a gable roof and vaulted zones on both floors from the 18th century, and a coach house, a single-storey solid building with a gable roof from the 19th century. The stone bridge to the gate entrance dates from the 16th century. In the park there is historicizing staffage architecture with stepped gables and round turrets from the 19th century. In the northeast of the complex, remains of the medieval castle wall with the balcony made of ashlar masonry have been preserved. Source: www.wikipedia.org

Helfenberg Castle Ruins Finds suggest that there was a fortification on the mountain at an early stage. The medieval castle was first mentioned in 1198 as the property of the Counts of Velburg. In 1217, the last Count Ulrich ceded his rights to the Bishop of Regensburg, who enfeoffed Wirnto von Plankenstein. After Wirnto's death, he passed them on to his ministerials in Hohenfels in 1232 in exchange for Falkenstein Castle, who then called themselves "von Helfenberg". However, they later ran into financial difficulties and had to sell their property. In 1373, a new owner, Hans Ehrenfelser, pawned the castle to Count Palatine Ruprecht, who from then on occupied it with caretakers. It is said to have been destroyed in the Landshut War of Succession. In 1624, the badly neglected Helfenberg Castle and the Upper Palatinate came to Bavaria, and Elector Maximilian gave it, along with Breitenegg Castle, to his general Tilly. His descendant, Count Lorenz Tilly, had a new baroque castle built between 1696 and 1707 by the then Italian star architect Viscardi, and the paintings were done by Hans Georg Asam, the father of the famous Asam brothers. After the Battle of Deining in 1796, the castle was plundered and burned by defeated French revolutionary troops. Sold for demolition in 1807 for 2,200 guilders, it was largely dismantled and used for new buildings in the area. Parts of the interior are said to still be found in the surrounding villages today. The castle ruins have been renovated since 2019, the wall sections secured and the vegetation removed. The Free State is contributing almost 500,000 euros to the work, which is being led by the support association founded in 2003. The appearance of the castle can only be guessed at from the historical view; you can see an oval ring wall, a round keep with a later onion dome, a residential building, a gate tower and a small chapel outside. Nothing of this can be seen today. Some parts of the outer bailey wall and the mighty substructures of the castle have been preserved from the once magnificent castle. These in particular give an idea of how large this building once was. A picture of the castle can now be found in the high altar panel of the church in Lengenfeld - the painting comes from the castle chapel. Perhaps the renovation will soon make the remains of the castle recognizable again. Source: www.burgenseite.de

Adelburg castle ruins In 1180, an Engelhard was mentioned as the owner of the "adelenburc" for the first time; in the context of the document, a close connection to the Babonen from Abensberg is conceivable. As noble knights, the Adelburgers are close to the Hohenstaufen emperors. In 1230, Engelhard appeared as a witness in an Italian document from the last Hohenstaufen emperor, Friedrich II. In 1246, opposing king Heinrich Raspe promised the Adelburg to the Sulzbürger if it were to fall back to the empire - the last news from the Adelburgers. Perhaps Engelhard died in the turmoil surrounding the Hohenstaufen heir Konradin in Italy. In 1268 the Adelburg came to the Wittelsbach family, who then repeatedly mortgaged it. In 1334 it was owned by the controversial Auer patrician family from Regensburg, who used it as a base in the war against the imperial city. At the end of the same century, the knight Stephan Gewolf repeatedly used it as a starting point for raids on the road from Neumarkt to Hemau. After the Bavarian Duke intervened, he had to promise to refrain from the attacks in 1394. Other owners were Hilpolt Mendorfer in 1399 and in the 15th century, the Muracher, the Kürner and the Parsberger. In 1505, the Adelburg finally passed to the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg through the decree of Emperor Maximilian in Cologne. Duke Friedrich sold the castle to knight Jörg Wisbeck from Velburg, after which it was no longer mentioned and probably no longer inhabited. The remains of the Adelburg were finally destroyed in 1755 when the blocks of its walls were removed to build the church in Batzhausen. Further decay to this day. You can only get a distant idea of the once impressive castle from the view from the southwest: on the outer wall of the chapel tower you can still see a few medium-sized, precisely carved cuboids. Today, essentially only a 3.5 m high section of the curtain wall remains on the north side of the complex. The mystery of the Adelburg arises from the question of where the access to the core castle was. There is no ramp or flat area: the rock on which the castle lies falls steeply on all sides and has to be climbed. That's why there is even speculation that access was through an underground passage. Source: www.burgenseite.de

Only remains of the castle can be seen.

Former castle in Wildenstein with church

Great castle ruins with a rest area and a wonderful view.

Very nice castle, as already mentioned today as a conference venue... I have been there very often, you can also stay overnight here and eat very well... I think also for other guests, at least when I was about 5 years ago Spent several nights here (great bar in the basement) and bikers were eating there... I think so, at least you can visit the inside when it's open, you can do that, super mega view from the dining room with panoramic windows... oh yes, overnight stay, room without TV and radio,... quiet... but the bar has something