Schloss Pasing

Schloss Pasing once stood in Munich’s Pasing district where a medieval water castle had been built on a small mound. The bishops of Freising owned the site by around 1100, and in 1381 it passed to the patrician Pütrich family. A new house replaced the old keep about 1500, and in 1596 the Reitmor family received the Hofmarksprivileg for Pasing. Michael Wening’s 1701 engraving shows the moated building and its farmyards. The castle gradually decayed in the 18th century and was pulled down in 1787. A year later a smaller palace was built south of the old site for the Berchem family. King Maximilian I Joseph bought the property in 1814 and demolished the Hofmarkschloss in 1815 to make way for Schloss Gatterburg. After 1834 the estate’s manorial rights passed to Felix von Hilz and later to Karl von Beck. By 1862 only the island, a circular water ditch and a six-metre mound remained as traces. Today the former island is a protected archaeological site. Visitors can walk around the low grassy mound and trace the outline of the vanished water ring. The site is quiet, with no modern buildings on the small green space. Information boards explain the castle’s history and the layers beneath the turf. The setting recalls the medieval landscape of streams and earthworks that once surrounded the bishops’ stronghold.