Landeskron Castle

Landeskron Castle
Alternative name (s):	Geiersberg, Dreifaltigkeitsberg
Creation time :	1258
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Regensburg - Steinweg - "Dreifaltigkeitsberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 1 '53.1 "  N , 12 ° 5' 42.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '53.1 "  N , 12 ° 5' 42.9"  E
Height:	375  m above sea level NN

The castle Landeskron even Geiersberg or Dreifaltigkeitsberg called, is an Outbound Spur castle on the eastern foothills of the Winzerer heights on the 375  m above sea level. NN high Dreifaltigkeitsberg on the Danube bank at Steinweg opposite the old town of Regensburg in Bavaria .

The castle was built in 1258 by Duke Ludwig II (Ludwig the Strict) and razed by the citizens of Regensburg in 1259 . No remains of the castle have survived above ground , the castle stables are recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as a ground monument D-3-6938-0056 "Underground findings of the lost medieval castle Landeskron" .

literature

• Andreas Boos: Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . From the series: Regensburg Studies and Sources on Cultural History, Volume 5 . Published by the museums and the archive of the city of Regensburg. Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 365-367.

Web links

• Entry on Burg Landeskron in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Regensburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 476 kB)