Angerberg Castle

Angerberg Castle
The castle site on an enlarged section of the Bavarian premiere (1808 to 1864)
Creation time :	First half of the 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle stable, wall, wall and moat remains
Construction:	Quarry stone masonry
Place:	Neukirchen vorm Wald - Sickenthal - "Illzleiten"
Geographical location	48 ° 40 '28.9 "  N , 13 ° 25' 59.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '28.9 "  N , 13 ° 25' 59.1"  E
Height:	390  m above sea level NHN

The castle Angerberg called a today Outbound , the end of the Middle Ages built hilltop castle on the western edge of the valley of Ilz in the small town Sick valley , in the municipality of Neukirchen vorm Wald in the district of Passau in Bavaria . Angerberg Castle was built by Wilhelm von Schönanger, but it did not have a particularly long existence, as it was destroyed again before the middle of the 13th century due to robber barons. Only extensive moats and ramparts as well as little masonry of the former keep have survived from the castle. The site is protected as soil monument number D-2-7346-0006 "Underground medieval findings and finds in the area of ​​the 'Angerberg' castle stables" ". Another castle stable is located just 200 meters north-northeast of the former Angerberg Castle. Around three kilometers down the river, there is a third castle site, the Teufelsturm castle stables on the eastern Ilzufer.

Geographical location

The wooded castle site is located in the southern Bavarian Forest , about 750 meters southeast of the center of Sickenthal or 3900 meters east-southeast of the Catholic parish church of St. Martin von Neukirchen vorm Wald. It was around 390  m above sea level. NHN height on a long and narrow mountain spur directed to the southeast, which drops very steeply to the north-northeast and to the spur peak to the southeast, around 80  meters in altitude into the deeply cut valley of the Ilz. The south-south- western long side of the mountain spur is bounded by the also very steep valley of the short Sickenthaler Bach . Only to the north-north-west does the mountain spur hang at 427  m above sea level. NHN high and rather flat mountain top together.

history

Angerberg Castle was founded by Wilhelm von Schönanger during the first half of the 13th century. She served as the starting point for his raids during her short lifetime. The peace in the country announced on July 23, 1244 did not prevent Wilhelm from his raids, so that troops of Duke Otto II of Bavaria and those of Passau Bishop Rüdiger von Bergheim destroyed the castle in August 1244.

description

The multi-part, elongated castle site was naturally very well protected against approach on three sides due to its location on a south-east facing mountain spur, which is also known as the castle hill , only stronger fortification was necessary on the rising north-north-west side. The castle was secured in this direction by a system of four transverse moats and a slope moat.

About 110 meters from the highest point of the mountain spur on which most of the former keep standing, a first trench crosses the spur back. It extends far down the respective mountain slopes at both ends. A second, powerful trench crosses the ridge 20 meters southeast of the outermost trench. It is located around 90 meters in front of the keep, and runs down the slope in a north-northeast direction, and here merges into an S-shaped, unbending slope ditch, which then runs along the north-northeast longitudinal side of the castle site. Another 40 meters to the south-east is a third ditch across the mountain spur. It seals off a 40 × 12 meter plateau that is cut through by the access path in the north, and on the other side of the path continues as a narrower and deeper area. Possibly the area of ​​the outer bailey was here . The fourth ditch at the end of the outer bailey is designed as a neck ditch , it is 25 meters in front of the elevation of the keep. This keep, which forms the north-western part of the main castle , stood on the highest point of the mountain spur on a steeply sloping, truncated pyramid-shaped dome, which has a square plateau with a side length of about ten meters. The inner surface of this plateau is deepened, on the edge there are still fallen remains of rubble stone masonry. The keep was probably razed when it was destroyed, which resulted in the depression. A lower plateau, which measures 30 × 15 meters, joins this crest to the southeast in the direction of the Spornspitze. There are also fallen remains of quarry stone at the edges.

The driveway is a path coming from the north-west, which bridges or cuts through the system of ditches and then approaches the north-east foot of the castle stable in an arc shape. This path is accompanied on the outside by the deeply cut sloping ditch that protected the slightly less steep north-east side.

literature

• Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Laßleben , Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 251.

Web links

• Entry on Sickenthal in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 251
2. ↑ List of monuments for Neukirchen vorm Wald (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)
3. ↑ It is not known whether, and if so, how this castle stable is related to Angerberg Castle.
4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
5. ↑ Source history: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 251
6. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 251