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