Cultural heritage D-2-7138-0201 in Bad Abbach

The Haslsteiner Sitz is a medieval and early modern site in Dünzling, now part of Bad Abbach in Lower Bavaria. It lies just west of the parish church of St Martin, on a plot measuring 35 metres north to south and 60 metres east to west. The remains include a 12th-century keep embedded in a house on Saalhauptstraße, along with traces of earlier buildings and the vanished chapel of St Sebastian. A 1960s renovation uncovered small blocked windows and stone benches with wooden seats on the courtyard side. The site was once the centre of a fortified cemetery and church complex. Records from 1717 mention repairs to the enclosing wall called the Freyhof Thurn, and a 1712 document refers to the chapel of St Sebastian. Until 1733 a wooden passage linked the keep to the west gallery of St Martin’s church. Dünzling stood on an old road from Regensburg to Landshut, and the area belonged first to St Emmeram Abbey, then to the lords of Abensberg and later the Wittelsbachs. Visitors see the 15-metre-long house that still holds the medieval tower. The original entrance, a Romanesque arch on the first floor, could only be reached by ladder or external stairs. Inside are the remains of the fortified cemetery wall and the church, while outside the village lane follows the line of the old trade route. The setting combines gentle slopes, farmland and the spire of St Martin’s church.