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Kleeberg Castle
Kleeberg Castle is a castle near Ruhstorf in the district of Passau. A Simon Munster de Cleberg is already mentioned in documents in 1398, but nothing of the medieval castle remains. In the 16th and 17th centuries, ownership changed between the Ruhstorfer and Auer von Tobel families. The existing building was erected in 1610 by Hans Wolf von Ruestorf auf Truchtlaching und Poigen. In 1735, the Ruhstorfer family died out. Through the marriage of the Imperial Countess von Fränking, the Counts von Taufkirchen-Ybm became the lords of the castle here.
In 1871, with Max Joseph, the Taufkirchen-Kleeberg family died out in the male line. His widow married Louis Weiß von Starkenfeld. He sold the property in 1881 to the Barons von Moreau, to whom Kleeberg Castle still belongs today.
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The three-story manor house has a hip roof and a turret with a curved dome at each of the four corners. The northeast tower is twice as high as the others and is also crowned by a lantern. Around 1690, the upper floors of the building were decorated with stucco by the Passau court artist Giovanni Pietro Camuzzi.
The ballroom wing adjoins the two-story old gatehouse. The ballroom was built around 1740, and its ceiling and north wall are adorned with stucco decoration by Johann Baptist Modler. The centerpiece of the depiction is the triumphal procession of the goddess Venus on her peacock chariot, alongside allegories of the four seasons. Already in 1759, the room was converted into a chapel with a Mariahilf altar and side figures by Franz Joseph Ignaz Holzinger. Modler is possibly also the master of the crucifix and the Taufkirchen-Gugler marriage coat of arms from 1768 above the portal of the gatehouse.
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