Rauenwörth Castle

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Rauenwörth Castle
Alternative name (s): Castellum Rau (h) enwerde; Rauhenwörth
Creation time : before the 14th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, no more rising masonry
Place: Walting
Geographical location 48 ° 55 '17 "  N , 11 ° 21' 51.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '17 "  N , 11 ° 21' 51.2"  E
Height: 376  m above sea level NN
Rauenwörth Castle (Bavaria)
Rauenwörth Castle

The castle Rauen Wörth , even rough Wörth written is an Outbound lowland castle in Altmühltal on the territory of the present municipality Walting in Upper Bavarian district Eichstätt . It is located between the Waltinger district of Gungolding and the Kipfenberg district of Arnsberg .

Geographical location

It was a moated castle at 376 meters above sea ​​level . It stood on an island of the Altmühl formed by a moat .

history

The "Castellum rough history" than Eichstätter fiefdom owned by the Counts of Grögling-Hirschberg and came up with their extinction, according to testamentary disposition of Count Gebhard VII. Of 8 September 1304 and in accordance Gaimersheimer arbitral award of 1305 together with the Wild spell in the associated forests to the Eichstätt Monastery . It then seems to have declined quickly; Rising masonry has probably not existed for centuries. In 1289 the moated castle is mentioned as "the former small castle Rauenwerde". The island situation was gradually lost through siltation ; at last only slight depressions of the moat were visible.

When the district Eichstätt in 1987 in the wake of natural and environmental programs took the restoration of the island in attack in order to Ödfläche and a wetland remodel, found in the field of aerial photographs former castle bridge known archaeological surveys instead, in addition to numerous ceramics of 13 Century brought remains of oak bridge beams to light. According to dendrochronological studies, these oaks were felled in 1295.

The wet biotope, which has not been managed since it was created, is not allowed to be entered for nature conservation reasons . The site of the former moated castle is therefore not accessible.

Others

The Postal southwest faced on a rock, the 1394 scale, not built to end-Bavarian ducal castle Nunnenstein / Nonnenstein / Neuenstein .

literature

  • Rauenwörth . In: Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II Eichstätt District Office . Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1928 (reprint 1982), p. 301f.
  • Karl Zecherle and Toni Murböck: Nature worth seeing in the Eichstätt district . Eichstätt: District of Eichstätt 1982, p. 38
  • Andreas Tillmann: Excavations in the moated castle Rauenwörth near Gungolding: Walting community, Eichstätt district, Upper Bavaria . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria , 1987, pp. 173–176
  • Gerd Riedel: The excavations on the Rauenwörth castle stable near Gungolding, Eichstätt district. Findings and finds . In: Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Ingolstadt , 101 (1992), pp. 37-133
  • Marina Sachsenbacher-Palavestra: Animal bone finds from the Rauenwörth moated castle near Gungolding . In: Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Ingolstadt , 101 (1992), pp. 134-138

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mader, p. 301; also: Alfred Wendehorst: The diocese of Eichstätt: The row of bishops until 1535, volume 1 . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006, p. 126
  2. ↑ Mader, p. 302; Zecherle / Murböck, p. 38
  3. ↑ Tillmann, p. 176
  4. ↑ a b c About the castle and the wetland on personenschiffahrt.de
  5. ↑ Tillmann, p. 173, as well as: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgamn.de
  6. ↑ Chronicle Gungolding on walting.com
  7. ^ Collective sheet HV Eichstätt 92/93 (1999/2000), p. 288; Zecherle / Murböck, p. 38