Liebeneck Castle

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Liebeneck Castle
Burgstall Liebeneck - remains of the masonry of a residential tower, today encased by a concrete layer

Burgstall Liebeneck - remains of the masonry of a residential tower, today encased by a concrete layer

Alternative name (s): Liebeneck castle ruins
Creation time : before 1346
Castle type : Höhenburg, tower castle
Conservation status: Disappeared, few remains of the wall of a residential tower preserved, next to it a ditch
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Construction: Filled masonry from quarry stone
Place: Greding - Mettendorf - "Pfaffenberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 1 '26.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 57.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '26.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 57.5"  E
Height: 455  m above sea level NN
Liebeneck Castle (Bavaria)
Liebeneck Castle

The castle Liebeneck is an Outbound high medieval noble castle that once located above the valley of Schwarzach rose. Today's Burgstall is located south of today's Gredinger district of Mettendorf in the Central Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria , Germany . The small ministerial seat, which mainly consisted of a residential tower, fell into disrepair during modern times , and only a few masonry and a ditch have survived from it.

Geographical location

The castle site of the Höhenburg is located 2700 meters south-southeast of the Catholic parish church Sankt Jakobus d. Ä. in Greding or around 650 meters south-southwest of the Catholic branch and pilgrimage church of St. John the Baptist in Mettendorf above the Schwarzach valley at around 455  m above sea level. NN halfway up the slope of 524.7  m above sea level. NN high Pfaffenberg . The Pfaffenberg, which extends roughly from northwest to southeast, falls extremely steeply into the valleys of the Schwarzach and Heimbach, and the castle was built on a small slope terrace in the southeast of the mountain.

There are other former medieval castles in the vicinity: about three kilometers to the south are the Rumburg castle ruins , once the seat of the noble free von Enkering. Approximately 5.5 kilometers to the southwest are the ruins of Rundeck or Stossenburg Castle , and Wieseck Castle Stables , and the Brunneck castle ruins further on in this direction . Six kilometers to the southeast are the Hubertusfelsen , Torfelsen and Saufelsen castle stables , all three of which are Emmendorfer's headquarters . Up the Schwarzachtal, there was once a hilltop castle in the village of Hausen.

history

The small castle was built by the Absbergers , the first documentary mention comes from the year 1346. Knight Gottfried (Götz) von Absberg called himself "ze Liebenekke" until 1351. His son Henry "from Rannburk" ( Rumburk ) had in 1377 the castle the Count Palatine Ruprecht I. as a fief apply because he the Kloster Seligenporten had attacked; In this Cistercian monastery, the Rumburg line of the Absbergers had their burial place until a rift broke out. In 1388 Heinrich again raised claims to the castle. In 1396/97 it was inhabited by Hans Pollanter the Elder, perhaps a son-in-law of Heinrich. In 1416 the District Court of Sulzbach ruled that the festivals belonged to Count Palatine Johann von Neumarkt , as the knight Hans von Absberg had not renewed the fief in time. Two years later, the heirs of the knight Hans sold the village of Mettendorf to the Nuremberg citizen Kunz Flurheim, while Count Palatine Johann gave Liebeneck Castle to the Marshals of Eibwang as a fief. The series of subsequent owners is called the Kemnater , in the 16th century the Rauscher, Pirkenfels, Perlein, Gluck and Köller.

In 1570, Elector Friedrich III. from the Palatinate the castle to the Hochstift Eichstätt . Subsequently an episcopal forester sat there. The castle gradually fell into disrepair; perhaps it was also affected when the nearby village was almost completely burned down in the Thirty Years' War around 1632/34.

On September 15, 1727, two " images of grace " were brought from the castle to the church of St. John in Mettendorf, causing pilgrimages to this church.

After secularization in 1802, the castle was still covered in 1827. In 1847, however, the stone material was used for the substructure of the district road.

description

It was a tower castle , the trapezoidal bering of which was separated from the higher slope of the valley by a ditch .

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 93-95.
  • Helmut Rischert: Liebeneck, Stossenberg and Reicheneck castles . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 76 (1983), Eichstätt 1984, p. 25 f.
  • Liebeneck castle ruins . In: Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. III District Office Hilpoltstein. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1929 (reprint 1983), p. 232 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bayern Viewer