Marnstein Castle

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Marnstein Castle
Alternative name (s): Burgstall Mohrenstein
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Disappeared, remains of walls and moats preserved
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Störnstein - Mohrenstein
Geographical location 49 ° 44 '13.6 "  N , 12 ° 13' 57.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '13.6 "  N , 12 ° 13' 57.6"  E
Height: 464  m above sea level NHN
Marnstein Castle (Bavaria)
Marnstein Castle

The Outbound Castle Marnstein was a high medieval hilltop castle on a outcrop between the Valley of the raft and a side valley. It was located immediately west of the Mohrenstein wasteland in the municipality of Störnstein in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria . This castle site is also referred to in the literature as the Mohrenstein castle stable .

Little historical information is known about this castle; it was first mentioned in 1281 as Marnstein. In the Floßschen Salbuch of 1617, Mohrenstein is referred to as “ a bad, little good, no lock has no indication that something was right before the ages ”. The castle seems to have already gone by then. Only a few remains of the wall and a moat have survived from the former castle .

The site is listed as a monument number D-3-74-158-14 “Former. Burgstall, so-called Mohrenstein, wall remains made of quarry stone over a rectangular floor plan, probably medieval ”and protected as ground monument number D-3-6239-0037“ Medieval Burgstall "Marnstein" ”.

Geographical location

The castle site of the Spornburg is 464  m above sea level. NHN height and thus around 20  meters above the valley floor of the raft, on a cone-shaped spur that is not more than 80 meters wide and facing south. This spur cone is protected on its east side and in the south by slopes steeply sloping into the valley of the raft; on its west flank it is bordered by the valley of a short, nameless stream with two ponds. The castle site was naturally well protected on three sides, only in the north is the castle area connected to a saddle, which is then followed by a larger and slightly higher plateau.

1850 meters to the west-southwest is the now- defunct Störnstein Castle , 3350 meters to the north-north-west is the castle stables Kronsburg .

description

The buildings of Marnstein Castle were mainly located on the summit plateau of the Spornkuppe and on a slope terrace south of the summit. Remnants of the rubble stone wall of a rectangular building have been preserved on the 20 × 15 meter plateau . Five meters below the summit plateau, halfway up the slope of the Spornkuppe, this is surrounded by a two to three meter wide terrace that widens to up to ten meters on the southwest side. Here, too, there are only poorly preserved remains of the wall.

3.5 meters below the terrace, a partial, four-meter-wide ring trench surrounds the dome, which is only exposed on the very steeply sloping northeast side. Here a road leads down into the valley from the plateau to the Mohrenstein wasteland. The castle site was probably disturbed during the construction of this road on this side. In the south, the trench is accompanied by an outer wall 0.5 meters high from the bottom of the trench. The ditch, which runs on the south side of the castle site on about a third of the slope height, is on the not so deeply sloping west side at the foot of the spur cone. In the northwest the ditch is interrupted by an earth ramp that leads to the summit plateau.

literature

  • 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. 234.

Web links

  • Entry on Mohrenstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric site monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 234
  2. ↑ Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg, Vol. IX, district office Neustadt an der Waldnaab. 1907 (reprinted by R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1981), p. 71.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Störnstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 320 kB)
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 234