Freudenberg Castle (Upper Palatinate)

Freudenberg Castle
Creation time :	around 1250
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Freudenberg
Geographical location	49 ° 28 '38.1 "  N , 11 ° 58' 34.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '38.1 "  N , 11 ° 58' 34.3"  E
Height:	460  m above sea level NHN

The castle Freudenberg is an Outbound hilltop castle at 460  m above sea level. NHN on the Schlossberg at the southwest end of the village (Schlossberg 15) of Freudenberg in the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Bavaria . This castle was expanded into a castle during the Middle Ages , of which only a few remains of the wall have survived.

history

In 1252 an Albertus von Freudenberg was mentioned in a document from the Kastl monastery , which indicates that the castle was built around 1250. From the former small castle with a triangular floor plan, a large tower was still preserved in 1774; in 1911 the castle complex was damaged by fire.

Today the ruin is classified as a monument D-3-71-122-6 "Freudenberg Castle ruins, medieval", and as a ground monument D-3-6537-0153 "Medieval castle stable with a high medieval tower and the underground remains of the late medieval castle of Freudenberg" from Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation recorded.

description

The castle complex was on a spur protruding to the west between two valleys, and consisted of a fore and a main castle , which was at the tip of the spur.

In the main castle there is a tower hill measuring about twelve by twelve meters, which rises about 20 meters from the spur peak. This part of the castle was protected by a ditch in the east, no wall remains of the main castle have survived. To the east of the neck ditch there was still a bailey area, which was also protected by a ditch, which is now completely filled in. In the cellar of a building from the 16th century there are still remains of walls from later construction phases of the castle.

literature

• Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: On the trail of knights and nobles in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - castles, palaces, noble residences, hammer estates . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, ISBN 3-924350-26-4 , pp. 24-25.
• Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 67-69.
• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 97.

Web links

• Entry on Burgrest Freudenberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Freudenberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)
3. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 97