Frankenberg Castle (Amorbach)

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Frankenberg Castle
Cellar vault in the excavated castle ruins

Cellar vault in the excavated castle ruins

Alternative name (s): Castrum Frankenberg ( original castrum francenberg )
Creation time : around 800
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall, basement
Standing position : Gaugraf
Construction: Odenwald sandstone (foundation walls)
Place: Amorbach and Weilbach - " Gotthardsberg "
Geographical location 49 ° 39 '17.1 "  N , 9 ° 12' 47.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '17.1 "  N , 9 ° 12' 47.1"  E
Height: 304  m above sea level NN
Frankenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Frankenberg Castle

The Burg Frankenberg is an Outbound early- and late medieval hilltop castle on the site of the monastery ruins on the 304  m above sea level. NN high Gotthardsberg (formerly Frankenberg) between Amorbach and Weilbach in the Miltenberg district in Bavaria , the summit of which rises about 150 meters above the valley floor of the Mud passing in the southwest and west .

history

According to a tradition, the Franconian Count Ruthard is said to have built the " Castrum Frankenberg" on the Frankenberg . 1138 the castle was one of the Hl. Godehard of Hildesheim consecrated chapel added. Since then the mountain has been called "Gotthardsberg".

The castle was destroyed on the orders and edict of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa at the Reichstag in Würzburg in 1168 and was not allowed to be rebuilt (see also Güldene Freiheit ).

With the beginning of the 13th century, was at the castle site Convent of Cistercians built the 1525 during the Peasants' War was burnt down, and now a well-preserved ruins with a 1878-scale, 72-step spiral staircase.

View from the Gotthard ruins, the former monastery church, of the excavations
View of the walls of the lost castle on the way to the east
The ruins of the monastery church

In 1244/1245 Konrad I von Dürn , who at that time exercised the bailiff over the Amorbach monastery and its lands, tried to fortify the Gotthardsberg again, but this failed because of the bitter resistance of the monastery.

In the vicinity of the ruins of the monastery church, a three-aisled pillar basilica with a towering but narrow stair tower, remains of the wall from the former castle complex have been preserved. During excavations by the Archaeological Spessart Project (ASP) in the years 2010 to 2012, cellar vaults and other wall remnants including interesting finds (these can be attributed to the monastery period) were uncovered and secured. Parts of the wall remnants assigned to the castle were built using the Opus spicatum technique.

The Burgstall is listed as a ground monument according to the Bavarian Monument List on the basis of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of October 1, 1973, with the number D-6-6321-0041: Archaeological findings in the area of ​​the former medieval monastery and underground parts of the early modern church ruins St. Gotthard as well high medieval castle stable .

literature

  • Wolfgang Hartmann: The destruction of Frankenberg Castle near Amorbach by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch (1993), pp. 76–91.
  • Christine Reichert, Harald Rosmanitz: Porphyry on the Gotthardsberg . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria, 2010 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, p. 150 ff.
  • Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Castles and palaces in the Odenwald. A guide to historical landmarks . Druckhaus Diesbach, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-936468-24-9 , pp. 111-112.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hartmann: The destruction of Frankenberg Castle near Amorbach by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , pp. 76–91
  3. ^ Friedrich Johann Hildenbrand: The Gotthard ruins near Amorbach in Franconia , Amorbach 1892, p. 12
  4. ↑ The excavations were initiated by the project of the “Gotthardsberg” working group , which includes the Amorbach Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , the Weilbach-Weckbach home association , the city ​​of Amorbach and the community of Weilbach . The Archaeological Spessart Project carried out the excavations and is responsible for the scientific evaluation. Significant funding was provided by the cultural foundation of the Lower Franconia administrative district .
  5. ↑ Christine Reichert, Harald Rosmanitz: Porphyr auf dem Gotthardsberg , p. 150 ff.
  6. ↑ Peter W. Sattler, Marion Sattler: Burgen und Schlösser im Odenwald , p. 112
  7. ↑ Der Gotthardsberg - Funde - Bodenfliesen , website of the ASP with information on the soil finds; accessed on November 27, 2017
  8. ↑ Der Gotthardsberg - excavation diary 2012 , website of the ASP on the excavations of 2012, cf. Images from August 16 and 22, 2012; accessed on February 20, 2018
  9. ↑ Behavior is not yet established