Cultural heritage D-2-7546-0024 in Pocking

The Schloss Inzing was a small early-modern palace in Inzing, now part of Pocking in Lower Bavaria. It stood on a low mound once surrounded by a wide moat, traces of which appear in the 19th-century cadastral map. Before the palace, a medieval motte with a wooden tower occupied the same spot, defended by a ditch now barely visible. The site is worth visiting for its long history reaching back to the 9th century. Inzing appears in Carolingian records as a royal estate, and King Louis the German held the local chapel. By the 11th century the area belonged to the Counts of Formbach and the Passau cathedral chapter. The Chastner family of Ottenberg later owned the estate, followed by the Starzhausen family until 1764. After several changes of ownership the monastery at Vilshofen took control before secularisation in the early 19th century. Today only faint earthworks remain where the moat once lay. A street called Schloßstraße marks the vanished building’s outline. The flat field gives little away, but the old maps and engravings by Michael Wening show a two-storey H-shaped palace with a wooden bridge crossing the water. The quiet surroundings recall a place that once shaped the history of this corner of Bavaria.