Epprechtstein Castle

Epprechtstein Castle
Epprechtstein Castle - ruin of the residential tower with attached viewing platform
Creation time :	Probably between 1150 and 1180
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	ruin
Construction:	Square and hump square masonry
Place:	Kirchenlamitz - " Epprechtstein "
Geographical location	50 ° 8 '45.2 "  N , 11 ° 55' 2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '45.2 "  N , 11 ° 55' 2"  E
Height:	782.1  m above sea level NN

The Epprechtstein Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the same 782.1  m above sea level. NN high mountain Epprechtstein , which rises above the place Kirchenlamitz in the Bavarian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge .

history

In a deed of donation from Duke Otto II of Meranien, an "Eberhardus de Eckebretsteine" was first mentioned in a document in 1248. In 1308 King Heinrich VII enfeoffed the brothers Ulrich, Heinrich and Nickel, the sacks , with the fortress Epprechtstein, which von Wild became co-owners. In 1337, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian enfeoffed Vogt Heinrich von Plauen with a small part of the fortress. In 1352 the burgraves of Nuremberg stormed the robbery castle, after which they received it as a fief . Heinrich von Kotzau and his two brothers were among the attackers . In 1355/1356 they came through purchase into the entire possession of the castle, the office and Kirchenlamitz, with which the Epprechtstein and Kirchenlamitz became part of the Sechsämterland and the seat of officials . The castle tower was part of the defense system of the Wartordnung of 1498 . In the 16th century the castle was destroyed by the troops of Vogts Heinrich von Plauen and fell into disrepair.

The castle ruins were explored at the end of the 18th century by the local researcher Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht and the cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . The painter Georg Könitzer drew a lithograph of the castle ruins within his range of topics around the Fichtel Mountains.

description

View of the Epprechtstein from the Hohe Stein

The castle ruins of Epprechtstein stand on an elongated, steeply sloping granite slab on the unwooded summit . It is the former tower-like main residential building ( residential tower ), on which stairs lead to the wooden viewing platform built in 1982 . From there you have a panoramic view over the Waldstein range , to the Großer Kornberg , to Schwarzenbach an der Saale and Oberkotzau to Hof , south over the inner Fichtelgebirge to the Köseine . The service hut of the Kirchenlamitz mountain rescue service is 250 meters to the southeast .

literature

• Werner Bergmann : 750 years of Epprechtstein Castle - The history of Epprechtstein Castle and Office / Kirchenlamitz . Verlag der Stadt Kirchenlamitz, 1998.
• Werner Bergmann: Epprechtstein lookout point . In: The Seven Star . Issue 5/2010. Pp. 223-226.
• Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht : Ruins, antiquities and still standing locksmiths on and on the Fichtelgebirge. One try. 1795. ( online )
• Rudolph Freiherr von Reitzenstein : History of the fortress Epprechtstein near Kirchenlamitz . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . 9th volume, 3rd issue. Bayreuth 1865. pp. 48-71.
• Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , VIII. Administrative Region Upper Franconia, Volume 1 . Munich 1954, ISBN 3-486-41941-2 , pp. 104-107.
• Hans Vollet and Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings by the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . 1987.

Web links

Commons : Burg Epprechtstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Epprechtstein castle ruins on the House of Bavarian History site
• Epprechtstein castle ruins on the side of the Fichtelgebirgsverein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Epprechtstein lookout point, Werner Bergmann (PDF; 1.01 MB)