Linden Castle (Ruin)

The castle ruin Linden is located not far from the B 85 in the village of the same name near the town of Patersdorf in the municipality of Geiersthal in the Bavarian district of Regen.

The moated castle Linden was built by the Counts of Bogen. Later it came into the possession of the Wittelsbach family. In 1470, Duke Albrecht IV exchanged it with Konrad von Nußberg for his half share in Neunußberg Castle.

Later, the castle came to the Lords of Degenberg. They held the ducal monopoly for brewing wheat beer and established here in 1553 the first and for a long time only wheat beer brewery in the Bavarian Forest. Later, the brewery was moved to Viechtach.

After the extinction of the Degenberg family in 1602, the building fell to the Wittelsbach family. They made it the seat of a caretaker. The castle fell into disrepair, and the caretaker's house was burned down by the Swedes in 1641 during the Thirty Years' War. In 1761, the district court was moved to Viechtach, and the castle passed into civilian ownership. Only a remnant of a tower and rudimentary moats remain.