Schönbrunn Castle (Schönbrunn)

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Schönbrunn Castle
Creation time : Late medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, square tower hill with rampart and moat has been preserved
Place: Wunsiedel - Schönbrunn -Flur "Old Castle"
Geographical location 50 ° 1 '43.1 "  N , 11 ° 57' 54.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '43.1 "  N , 11 ° 57' 54.8"  E
Height: 600  m above sea level NN
Schönbrunn Castle (Bavaria)
Schönbrunn Castle

The Castle Schönbrunn is an Outbound late medieval castle in the Fichtel Mountains , about 170 meters west of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter of Schönbrunn , in the Upper Franconian municipality of Wunsiedel in Bavaria , Germany . In 1314 the "Schloss" Schönbrunn was owned by a Tuto de Hertenberg . Shortly afterwards the castle was probably destroyed, because in 1344 Heinrich von Hertenberg had to undertake to rebuild the castle stables at Schönbronn. Of the tower hill castle (Motte), only the tower hill, which was secured by a wall and a moat, has survived. The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5937-0010: a late medieval tower hill .

description

The Burgstall der Motte is located on the northern edge of the Röslau valley on a gently sloping mountain slope to the south-southwest at about 600  m above sea level. NN height and thus about 60  meters above the valley floor. It is overgrown by birch trees, which are protected as a natural monument .

The square tower hill with rounded corners measures 42 by 40 meters and its surface is leveled. This hill is surrounded by a ring ditch with an outer wall that seals it off from the rising mountainside on the north-northwest and east-northeast side. On the south-south-east and west-south-west side, the moat runs down the mountainside and then runs up to about six meters below the hilltop. In the east-northeast the ditch was filled a few meters, the outer wall was removed, this is probably a recent access. Today there are no more foundations or other remains of the castle.

literature

  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 165.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source history: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 165
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Wunsiedel (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 177 kB)
  3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 165