Amberg Castle

Amberg Castle
	Panorama of the city of Amberg by Matthäus Merian (before 1632), front left is the keep of the abandoned castle
Creation time :	probably around 1100
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	gone, overbuilt
Place:	Amberg - "Mariahilfberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 27 '10.6 " N , 11 ° 52' 15.8" E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '10.6 " N , 11 ° 52' 15.8" E
Height:	529 m above sea level NHN

The castle Amberg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the 529 m above sea level. NHN high, today so called " Mariahilfberg " at the place of the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf in Amberg in Bavaria .

The castle was probably built around 1100 by the lords of Amberg, mentioned in 1144 and extinct in the 14th century. In the 14th century the lords of Raigering were named as owners and later the city of Amberg. The chronicler Michael Schwaiger referred to the rectangular keep in 1564 as a "watchtower" and reports that the moat and old vestigijs (remains) can still be seen.

During a plague epidemic in 1633/34, the annual pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary began in Amberg; their goal was a miraculous image that was exhibited in the donjon , which was converted into a chapel . This, like a round chapel built in the following years, proved to be too small for the pilgrimage. In 1696 the construction of today's baroque pilgrimage church Maria Hilf started on the former castle area. The keep had to be demolished in 1701 because the church tower was built in its place. Letters from the superior of the Franciscan monastery from 1721 indicate that at that time a foundation wall of the castle still existed between the church and the monastery garden.

The area is designated by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) as a ground monument (D-3-6537-0082).

literature

Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1991, DNB 959183019 .
Anton Dollacker : The former castle on the Mariahilfberg near Amberg and the pilgrimage that resulted from it. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Retrieved March 20, 2015 (1931).

Web links

Entry on Amberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Schwaiger: Chronica or short description of the electoral town of Amberg in the Upper Palatinate in Beiern. Reprint of the Wittenberg 1564 edition. Carl Mayr, Amberg 1969 ( digitized in the Google book search).
^ Felix Mader: City of Amberg (= The art monuments of Bavaria, series 2: The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume XVI). Reprint of the Munich edition 1909. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-50446-0 , p. 202.

[1] Michael Schwaiger: Chronica or short description of the electoral town of Amberg in the Upper Palatinate in Beiern. Reprint of the Wittenberg 1564 edition. Carl Mayr, Amberg 1969 ( digitized in the Google book search).

[2] Felix Mader: City of Amberg (= The art monuments of Bavaria, series 2: The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume XVI). Reprint of the Munich edition 1909. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-50446-0 , p. 202.