Frauenstein Castle (Weiding)

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Frauenstein Castle
Image Burg Frauenstein Weiding 02.JPG
Creation time : First mentioned in 1270
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Weiding - "Frauenstein"
Geographical location 49 ° 27 '56.2 "  N , 12 ° 31' 54.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '56.2 "  N , 12 ° 31' 54.8"  E
Height: 875  m above sea level NN
Frauenstein Castle (Bavaria)
Frauenstein Castle

The Frauenstein Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the eponymous mountain Frauenstein in the municipality Weiding in Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The castle ruins are located on the summit of the Frauenstein, an elevation in the Upper Palatinate Forest between Gaistal, Winklarn and Weiding, 375 meters above the Aschatal . It is about 875 meters above sea level.

The altitude of the castle ruins is given differently depending on the source:

  • with 865 m
  • and with 875 m.

In part, these different heights may be based on the fact that a gradually rising ridge with several secondary peaks extends from the 835 m high Frauenstein to the 886 m high Signalberg in the southeast . The Frauenstein castle ruins are located on one of these side peaks and are therefore slightly higher than the Frauenstein itself, but lower than the Signalberg.

The castles of Reichenstein near Stadlern , Flossenbürg , Leuchtenberg , Trausnitz , Tännesberg , Gleiritsch , Haus Murach and Thannstein are located in the immediate vicinity of Frauenstein . In the Middle Ages , trade routes to Pilsen and Prague ran through the area (through the settlement area of ​​the West Slavic Chods , border guards of the kings of Bohemia to the Bavarian Northern Gau ) .

history

The village belonged Weiding in serfdom to rule Frauenstein, nothing is known about their origins. Duke Heinrich von Niederbayern bought Frauenstein from Fredrich the Siegenhofer in the second half of the 13th century . The following text has been handed down to this purchase: "But ze Weiding a gemawert chirchen vnd should be a stat, da belongs XXVI dorffer zvo vnd ligent oede". This source says that the area around the village of Weiding, which had a brick church, was largely deserted. In the 14th century, the dominion of Frauenstein and thus Weiding became a fief of the King of Bohemia. The Satzenhofer , Zenger , Fuchs and the Lords von Murach followed as further owners .

In 1512 Hans von Selbitz (knight, friend of Götz von Berlichingen ) appears as the owner of Frauenstein Castle in the Bavarian Forest .

On January 29, 1580 belehnte Emperor Rudolf II. To Andreas Georg von Murach on Kürnberg and Winklarn and his wife Anna, daughter of the late Hans Fuchs Schneeberg , with the two desert castles Frauenstein and Reichenstein, today as castle ruin Reichenstein get the little town Schönsee and the villages of Weiding and others. On November 26, 1605, Hans Friedrich Fuchs received an imperial fiefdom letter. The castles Frauenstein and Reichenstein, the town of Schönsee, Weiding , Pondorf , Gaisthal , Schönau , Stadlern and Schwand with the iron hammer were among his inherited possessions .

description

Only the remains of a wall and an archway have survived from the former castle.

Picture gallery

  • Frauenstein castle ruins

  • View from the castle ruins

  • Frauenstein castle ruins

  • Profile and floor plan 1906

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritsch hiking map Schönseer Land, scale 1: 35000
  2. ^ Teresa Guggenmoos: City of Schönsee. Verlag der Stadt Schönsee, Schönsee 1981, p. 11
  3. ^ Paulinus Fröhlich : Weiding bei Schönsee contributions to the history of the place. Weiding 1956, p. 58
  4. ^ Teresa Guggenmoos: The nature. In: Heribert Batzl (ed.): The district of Oberviechtach in the past and present. Publishing house for authorities and economy R. Alfred Hoeppner, Aßling / Obb. and Munich 1970, p. 20.
  5. ↑ Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 61. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 103 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ a b c Georg Hager: The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . Volume II, individual volume 7: District Office Oberviechtach . Munich 1906, reprint ISBN 3-486-50437-1
  7. ↑ Monumenta Boica, Volume 36.1, p. 448
  8. ↑ The emperor and his environment: Emperor Maximilian I. Court, State, Economy, Society and Culture. Böhlau: Vienna 1986, ISBN 978-3-7028-0236-3 , p. 101
  9. ↑ Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 61. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 129 ( digitized version ).