Geyern Castle

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Geyern Castle
Creation time : 12th or 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, ramparts and moats preserved
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Bergen - Geyern - "Breitenau"
Geographical location 49 ° 4 '27.2 "  N , 11 ° 5' 5.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '27.2 "  N , 11 ° 5' 5.5"  E
Height: 530  m above sea level NN
Geyern Castle (Bavaria)
Geyern Castle

The castle Geyern is an Outbound High Middle Spur castle on 530  m above sea level. NN , which rose north of Geyern on a mountain spur. Today's Burgstall is located about 350 meters from the center of Geyern in the municipality of Bergen in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria , Germany . The small spur castle was the former seat of the local aristocracy, later they moved to the younger complex in the immediate vicinity, which is where Geyern Castle is located. Only several ramparts and ditches are left of the object, which is protected as a ground monument.

history

Geyern Castle, whose construction is dated to the 12th or 13th century according to the shape of the complex, was the later ancestral seat of the Lords of Geyern, mentioned since 1255 . They originally came from Hofstetten in the Eichstätt district . At that time they called themselves Lords of Hofstetten and were ministerials to the Eichstätter bishops .

The castle was conquered in 1260 during a dispute between the Reichshermarschalls von Pappenheim and the Bavarian dukes and was not returned by the Wittelsbachers . Heinrich von Hofstetten only received the castle as a fiefdom from the Bavarian Duke Ludwig the Strict in 1276 . Since the Count of Hirschberg gave them the office of tavern , they called themselves from 1310 "Schenken von Geyern". Since the castle stable has not been archaeologically investigated to this day , it is not known when the Geyern local lords moved from the first castle to the second castle complex in a south-south-west direction and 280 meters away. Ruinous remains of a round donjon are still visible from this second castle, a castle was later built there . The area is designated as a ground monument (D-5-6932-0346) by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) .

description

The small two-part castle stable consists of an outer castle , which had an area of ​​about 60 by 50 meters, and an inner castle area . The outer bailey was separated from the adjoining plateau by a ditch about three meters deep . A second ditch six meters deep separated this part of the castle from the main castle, there is a tower hill and several ramparts. There are also two moats at the end of the mountain spur, one of which is six meters deep. There is also a flattened wall around the entire castle complex.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl, Walter E. Keller: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 3: Middle Altmühltal and Franconian Lake District . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-58-X , pp. 55-56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl, Walter E. Keller: Archaeological Walks, Volume 3: Middle Altmühltal and Franconian Lake District , p. 55 f.