Rundeck Castle

Rundeck Castle
The main castle with the gate tower
Alternative name (s):	Erlingshofen Castle, Stossenberg, Stossenburg
Creation time :	before 1242
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Enclosing walls
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Remnants of humpbacks, limestone
Place:	Kinding -Erlingshofen
Geographical location	48 ° 59 '32 "  N , 11 ° 18' 33"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '32 "  N , 11 ° 18' 33"  E
Height:	508.8  m above sea level NHN

The castle Rundeck also castle Erlingshofen , poking mountain or poking Burg called, which is ruin a Spur castle at Erlingshofen in the town of Kinding in the Bavarian district Eichstätt .

Geographical location

The ruins of the Veste Burg Rundeck rise east of Erlingshofen on the spur of the Schlossberg ( 508.8  m above sea  level ), a steep mountain tongue above the Anlauter valley.

An elaborate triple moat system secures the Burgplatz against the eastern plateau. The other flanks are protected by the natural steep drop and the inner ditch that continues as a berm to the west .

About 550 meters north-north-west of the ruins, another weir system has been preserved on the edge of the valley with the Wieseck castle stable , immediately to the south is the Kirchberg section fortification on the mountain of the same name, an early medieval or older section fortification , and a little further, to the west, lies the ruins of Brunneck Castle .

history

The old Erlingshofen Castle

The first castle in Erlingshofen was probably built in the 12th century. 1129 the brothers Hadebrand and Gottfried von "Erlungeshouen" are listed in the letter of foundation of the Plankstetten monastery . Gottfried called himself von Erlingshofen for the last time in 1169, because the family had meanwhile moved to Arnsberg above the Altmühltal. When "the von Arnsberg" had built their new castle in Heideck, the noble family first called themselves "von Heideck" in 1192 . The abandoned, perhaps destroyed castle still belonged to the Arnsberg rule, which, however, had been sold by Heideck to Bavaria before 1305 and was sold by the Wittelsbachers to the Bishop of Eichstätt in 1473. In 1379 and 1381 documents refer to the former castle of Erlingshofen as the “old castle stable”.

The Stossenburg

In 1381 Paul Stosser built a new castle on the foundation walls of the old Erlingshofen Castle, which was named "Stozzenberg" by the Bavarian dukes, who had the right to use the castle as a base in the event of war. The Stosser originally sat in Bieswang as knightly servants of the Marshals von Pappenheim . In 1383 Hans Stosser, a cousin of the late Paul Stosser, sold the castle to Duke Stephan the Kneißel of Bavaria-Ingolstadt . In 1388 he moved the castle, which is now called “die vesten Stolczenberg”, as a pledge for 500 guilders to Heinrich Absberger von Rumburg. In 1392, when Bavaria was divided for the third time, the castle fell back to Duke Stephan III. back. He sold them in 1409 to the brothers Hans and Heinrich Absberger zu Rumburg to pay off his debts with them. Heinrich and his wife Adelheid became the first parents of a branch of the inn that was named after Stossenburg. After Heinrich's death, his nephews sold the castle to the Eichstatter Prince-Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau for a pledge of 500 guilders . In order to make the pledged object unusable for a release, the Eichstätt bishopric let the castle fall into disrepair. In 1504 it was found abandoned by scouts from Nuremberg. In 1601, during the visit of the Vicar General Vitus Priefer in Eichstätt, impressive remains were still visible. The name "Stossenberg" was forgotten; instead, the name "Rundeck" appeared for the first time in 1801. It was not until 1932 that the former Stossenburg was recognized in the Rundeck ruins.

description

The oval castle complex, 30 to 40 meters in diameter, is separated from the hinterland by a triple neck ditch with ramparts that supported palisades . With its staggered triple ditch system with outer walls, the pre-fortification is reminiscent of early medieval fortifications ( Hungarian walls ) and certainly goes back at least to the high medieval castle.

The interior of the neck trenches, which is particularly deep, ran as a ring trench around the entire castle.

In the south-east of the complex, the castle was accessed via a gateway. The 1.50 meter thick curtain wall made of limestone quarry is around a third of its total length up to a height of around six meters as the western outer front. The original scaffolding holes in which the scaffolding was anchored are still clearly recognizable in the wall bond. These openings were intentionally left open so that they could be used as scaffolding girders again during a later renovation. On the top of the wall, a battlement walked around the complex, the recess of which is still partially preserved.

The four-storey gate tower rose in the south-east. It may have taken on the defense and representative functions of a keep and was accessible via a bridge. In addition to the partially preserved south wall, remains of the gate passage have been preserved. Some of the humpback blocks here still come from the first castle complex, while the rest of the wall remains mostly go back to the late medieval Stossenburg. An outer bailey, in which the farm buildings usually stood, is missing. The ruins were secured in 1938 and 1981.

Like the neighboring castles of Rumburg and Brunneck , Rundeck and Stossenburg also belong to the rare type of walled castle.

According to a legend , a wire ran from Rundeck Castle to Brunneck Castle with which the knights could give a sign of the robbery if a hiker or a wagon came along .

The freely accessible castle ruin is a station on the “Kindinger Burgenweg”, which was laid out by the Kinding community in collaboration with the castle researcher and historian Helmut Rischert.

• The castle complex in December 2008
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  Attempt to reconstruct the late medieval Stossenburg on an information board in front of the main castle

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  General view from the east

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  The triple wall system in front of the inner moat

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  The moat to the northwest

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  The preserved south wall of the gate tower

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  The western mantle wall (outside)

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  The inside of the mantle wall

literature

• JG Hierl: The castle ruins of the Anlautertal . In: Fränkische Alb 4 (1918), pp. 22-24.
• Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Middle Franconia II. District Office Eichstätt . (The art monuments of Bavaria). Munich 1927. Reprint: R. Oldenbourg-Verlag Munich / Vienna, 1982, p. 105f. ISBN 3-486-50505-X .
• JPJ Gewin: The flowering and decline of noble families in the Middle Ages . 's-Gravenhage 1955.
• Siegfried Hofmann: The family of those from Erlingshofen . In: Historical sheets for the city and district of Eichstätt , 7 (1958), No. 2.
• Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Weidlich Verlag, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 .
• Karl Zecherle (Red.): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 60-61 .
• Helmut Rischert: The two castles of Erlingshofen. In: Erlingshofen. 25 years of the “Rundeck” local history association. Kipfenberg: Hercynia-Verlag 1996, pp. 27-42.

Web links

• Entry on Rundeck Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Rundeck castle ruins at "burgseite.de"
• Rundeck Castle at "burgenwelt.de"

Individual evidence

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