The remains of the Castle can be visited
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Graisbach Castle (Ruin)
The Graisbach castle ruin is a castle ruin on an approximately 430-meter-high elevation, the "Schlossberg" (Castle Hill), on the northern edge of the Graisbach district of the municipality of Marxheim in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria.
The hilltop castle was presumably built around 1130 by the Lords of Graisbach and came into the possession of the Counts of Lechsgemünd in the 13th century, after their ancestral seat, Lechsend Castle at the Lech estuary near Marxheim, had been destroyed by Regensburg merchants in 1248. They subsequently called themselves "Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach". After the last descendant of the House of Lechsgemünd, Gebhard III of Graisbach, Bishop of Eichstätt, died in 1327, the property fell to the Wittelsbachs and became the administrative seat for the ducal officials.
The castle was expanded in the 13th and 14th centuries, partially destroyed in the 15th century, and demolished and used as a quarry in the 18th century.
Description+
Of the former castle complex with its core castle and outer bailey, significant wall remains including the castle gate, some of which are now built into houses, and the Romanesque castle chapel of St. Pancras from the 12th century are still preserved. Now owned by the district of Donau-Ries, the castle was leased to a private individual under a building lease in 2005. In 2009, an underground cloister collapsed in the inhabited part of the castle.
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