Mörnsheim Castle

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Mörnsheim Castle
Alternative name (s): Staffelburg
Creation time : First mentioned in 1225
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Remains of the ring and kennel wall
Standing position : Nobles, clericals
Construction: Humpback cuboid
Place: Mörnsheim
Geographical location 48 ° 52 '2.2 "  N , 11 ° 0' 16"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '2.2 "  N , 11 ° 0' 16"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NHN
Mörnsheim Castle (Bavaria)
Mörnsheim Castle

The castle Mörnsheim , even Season Burg called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the Castle Hill at about 510  m above sea level. NHN above the Gailach valley south of the municipality of Mörnsheim in the Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

history

View from the castle to Mörnsheim
Remains of a wall of Mörnsheim Castle

Probably the beginnings of the castle go back to the Lords of Mörnsheim in the 10th century. The castle was mentioned for the first time in 1225, when Bishop Heinrich I von Zipplingen had a huge donjon built from humpback ashlar as an impregnable center on the highest elevation of the castle square from 1225 to 1228 . In 1281 the castle was expressly referred to as "castrum Mornsheim". Then Bishop Konrad II von Pfeffenhausen had it walled, and then Bishop Friedrich IV Count von Oettingen reinforced various buildings and walls. He expanded the castle with a kennel , repaired it all around and probably founded the outer bailey . During his tenure as bishop of Eichstätt was Albrecht II. Of Hohenrechberg a wide and deep on the south side moat dug and a circular wall with towers and battlements built and a powerful external wall. Later Johann III. von Eych build a large residential building in the south corner of the main castle .

After 1634 the castle began to deteriorate and it was partially demolished in 1760. From 1980 security measures took place. Remains of the curtain wall and the Zwingermauer and a barrel-vaulted room of the St. Afra castle chapel are still preserved from the former castle complex.

The castle researcher Helmut Rischert sees Krugsburg Castle, first mentioned in 1024, as an outpost within sight of Mörnsheim Castle.

literature

  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 92-94 .
  • Karl Zecherle (editor): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 8-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Rischert: The Krugsburg . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 88/89 (1995/96), p. 71 f.