Banz Castle

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Banz Castle
Banz Monastery

Banz Monastery

Creation time : Early medieval
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Castle stable, ramparts and remains
of moats were built over by the monastery
Place: Bad Staffelstein - Neubanz
Geographical location 50 ° 7 '58.4 "  N , 11 ° 0' 2.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '58.4 "  N , 11 ° 0' 2.7"  E
Banz Castle (Bavaria)
Banz Castle

The castle Banz is an Outbound early medieval ring wall and high medieval hilltop castle site on the Banzer Berg at Neubanz , a district of Bad Staffelstein in the district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria .

From the former castle complex , which was the center of the Banzgau in the 10th century , only the remains of walls and moats are preserved. To the north of Banz Castle lies the Banzer Berg ring wall on the mountain range , the Kulch ring wall to the north-northwest on the Kulch and Steglitz Castle to the west on the mountain of the same name .

Around 1070, Countess Alberada von Schweinfurt and her husband, Count Hermann von Habsberg-Kastl , founded the Banz Monastery on the castle site .

literature

  • Denis Andre Chevalley and Hans Wolfram Lübbecke: Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume IV. Upper Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985.
  • Tilmann Breuer (editor): Bavaria I: Franconia. Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments . Munich 1999.

Web links

  • Entry on Banz Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".