Top 8 Castles around Atting

New Steinach Castle In 1901, August von Schmieder acquired Castle and Castle Estate Steinach from his friend and later father-in-law Carl von Lang-Puchhof and made it his residence after moving from Frankfurt a. M. Gabriel von Seidl, at that time the most famous architect in Bavaria, was commissioned with the planning of the "New Steinach Castle", Iwan Bartcky was entrusted with the construction management, and for the design of the large, almost 20-hectare park, August von Schmieder engaged garden director Paul Lorenz from Zwickau. The central part of the castle had an external length of almost 60 m with a depth of approx. 17 m, plus the west wing with external dimensions of 34 m x 15 m and the east wing with approx. 30 m x 15 m. In total, a living area of over 3,000 m² was calculated. The rooms are numbered on the plans, and taking the cellar rooms into account, the stately number of 200 rooms is reached. The large tower housed the 50 m³ water tank, a guest room, and at the very top the tower room with the magnificent view that can still be enjoyed from there today. On December 22, 1906, the topping-out ceremony took place, and on May 1, 1908, the completion of the New Castle was celebrated at the top of the Singberg. The castle was transferred to the Reichsautobahnen on February 7, 1939, for 440,000 RM; the largest motorway service area in Germany was to be built here on the motorway planned by Hitler from Regensburg to Passau to Vienna. From 1943, the castle served as an administrative office for the NSDAP in Lower Bavaria. On April 23, 1945, the main building was set on fire to destroy the party records stored there. The fire departments from the surrounding area were forbidden to attempt to extinguish the fire, and so the main building burned down. The outbuildings served as refugee accommodation after the end of the war. The ruin of the manor house was demolished in 1955. Since 1961, the castle and castle park have been privately owned. The outbuildings are partially rented out. The main building's tower, a listed building spared from destruction, is visible from afar. The largely untouched castle park has the enchanting charm of a sleeping Beauty castle and contains numerous old, exquisite solitary trees from various countries. Source: Excerpts from www.heimatgeschichte-steinach.de

The New Castle Steinach on the Singberg between Steinach and Münster was built from 1904 to 1908 according to plans by architect Gabriel von Seidl. The castle comprised 198 rooms over around 3800 square meters of living space. In 1939, the Reichsautobahnen bought the castle for 440,000 Reichsmarks. It was to be converted into Germany's largest motorway service area. But that did not happen. In 1943, the NSDAP took over the complex as the Niederbayern headquarters. On April 23, 1945, the main building was set on fire by SS troops to destroy the party records stored there. The burnt-out ruin was demolished in 1955. Only the outbuildings and the tower remained.

Only a few outbuildings and the tower remain of the original castle.

Nice place, would love to come back.

Beautifully restored farm directly on the Labertal cycle path.

Nice place, gladly again

Saulburg is a parish village and a district of the municipality of Wiesenfelden in the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen. Saulburg was an independent community until 1978.

Old castle with a Nazi past