Creußen Castle

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Creußen Castle
Alternative name (s): Heziloburg
Creation time : 9th to 10th centuries
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Count
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Creußen- Old Town
Geographical location 49 ° 50 '39 "  N , 11 ° 37' 23.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '39 "  N , 11 ° 37' 23.7"  E
Creußen Castle (Bavaria)
Creußen Castle

The castle Creußen , also called Heziloburg , is an abandoned castle in place of the former Palais Schirnding in the area of ​​the parish garden north of the rectory of the parish church St. Jakobus in Creußen (Heziloplatz 1) in the Bayreuth district in Bavaria .

history

The castle Castra Crusni was built in the 9th to the 10th century, mentioned in 1003 and destroyed. A new stone building took place in the 11th to 12th centuries. The castle was owned by the Counts of Schweinfurt ( Heinrich von Schweinfurt , Hezilo , son of Berthold von Schweinfurt ) and in 1251 the Burgraves of Nuremberg were named. In the 14th century the castle was the widow's seat of the Nuremberg Countess Elisabeth and was destroyed in the course of the Hussite Wars in 1430 .

description

There are no remains of the former castle complex. In archaeological test excavations from April to June 2001 under the direction of Magnus Wintergerst, findings from the 11th to 16th centuries showed foundations with humpback blocks of an early to high medieval dynasty castle , including the up to three meter high walls of a hexagonal keep from the 12th century . Century, on whose foundations the steeple of the parish church of St. James stands.

literature

  • Stefan Pfaffenberger: From urbs Crusni to Slos Krewsen - The Creußen castle complex as reflected in archaeological and written sources from the high and late Middle Ages . From the series: Works on the Archeology of Southern Germany, Volume 21 . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-933474-46-9 .
  • Magnus Wintergerst: excavations in the castle of the Schweinfurt counts in Creußen . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria, 2001 . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation / Society for Archeology in Bavaria (Ed.), Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2002, pp. 140 ff.
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia . A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts. Hofmann, Nürnberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 194 .

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