Old Castle (Harrbach)

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Old castle
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: small remains of the wall
Place: Gemünden am Main -Harrbach
Geographical location 50 ° 0 ′ 41.2 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 14.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 41.2 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 14.7"  E
Height: 195  m above sea level NN
Old Castle (Bavaria)
Old castle

The old castle is the ruin of a small hilltop castle at 195  m above sea level. NN in a meadow above the Harrbach district of the city of Gemünden am Main in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria .

Around 1100 the castle was built by the Lords of Harrburg, who were presumably the employers of the Lords of Homburg ( Gössenheim ).

In 1469 the diocese of Würzburg under Prince-Bishop Rudolf von Scherenberg acquired the village of Harrbach and the castle, which was destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 .

Around 1900 the castle was demolished as a quarry down to the foundation walls and today, after excavations, it still shows foundation walls, the entrance area of ​​the gate building and the castle moat .

literature

  • Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . 1st edition. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , p. 333.

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