Rieden Castle (Upper Palatinate)

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Rieden Castle
Burgstall vineyards

Burgstall vineyards

Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Vineyards - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 19 '24.5 "  N , 11 ° 56' 21.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '24.5 "  N , 11 ° 56' 21.4"  E
Height: 400  m above sea level NHN

The Burgrieden is an Outbound Spur castle on a promontory (Castle Hill) at 400  m above sea level. NHN west of Rieden in the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Bavaria .

The castle was built in the 12th century by the Lords of Rieden and a Chunrad de Rudin is mentioned from 1123 to 1136. By 1570 the castle was already in ruins and was probably finally destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years' War .

A few remains of the walls of the former castle have been built into farmhouses. Next to it there is a ditch and ramparts from an older fortification, probably from the 10th or 11th century.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate . Jolanda Drexler, Achim Hubel (arrangement), Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1991.

Web links

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