Birkenfels Castle (Middle Franconia)

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Birkenfels Castle
Creation time : Mentioned in 1275
Castle type : Niederungsburg, Wasserburg, Motte
Conservation status: Castle stable, vaulted cellar, remains of walls
Place: Flachslanden - Birkenfels
Geographical location 49 ° 22 '15.3 "  N , 10 ° 31' 47.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '15.3 "  N , 10 ° 31' 47.8"  E
Height: 470  m above sea level NHN
Birkenfels Castle (Bavaria)
Birkenfels Castle

The castle Birkenfels is an Outbound medieval moated castle from the type of a motte (moth) near the road to Brünst in the southeast corner of Birkenfels (no. 7), a modern district of the market town of Flachslanden in Ansbach in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably built in the 13th century by the Lords of Birkenfels and was first mentioned in a document in 1275 as Birchenfels Castle with Bruno von Birkenfels . After the Birkenfelsers, who were already living in Lehrberg , lost their ancestral home to the Counts of Hohenlohe in 1317 , an Apel von Seckendorff- Pfaff acquired the Birkenfelser castle in 1399 . The last Birkenfelser died in 1536. In 1632, in the middle of the Thirty Years' War, the imperial troops plundered, pillaged and destroyed the castle .

Small remains of walls and a barrel-vaulted cellar in houses 6 and 7 are evidence of the former castle complex, the tower hill of which has been leveled and built over .

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 188.
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 83 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board about the former castle in Birkenfels at flachslanden.de
  2. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas