Schwärzenberg Castle

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Schwärzenberg Castle
Schwärzenberg ruins near Strahlfeld

Schwärzenberg ruins near Strahlfeld

Alternative name (s): Schwarzenberg Castle
Creation time : probably during the 13th century
Castle type : Two-part hilltop castle in a summit location
Conservation status: Remains of the residential tower
Standing position : Lower nobility
Construction: Quarry stone masonry
Place: Roding beam field
Geographical location 49 ° 15 '10.2 "  N , 12 ° 28' 8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '10.2 "  N , 12 ° 28' 8"  E
Height: 556  m above sea level NN
Schwärzenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Schwärzenberg Castle

The Castle Mountain blackness , even Schwarzenberg called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle at 556  m above sea level. NN on a quartz rock of the pile west of the Strahlfeld district near the town of Roding in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The hilltop castle was probably built in the 13th century on the grounds of the Bamberg bishop by the lords of Fronau (noble family) , who were mentioned in a document as early as the beginning of the 12th century. The Haselberg Tower Hill Castle in the Haselberg area could have been a predecessor of the Höhenburg . The castle Schwärzenberg was first mentioned in 1306 in the fief book of the bishopric and named Andreas von Fronau as lord of the castle. From 1390 Peter Fronauer began raiding Regensburg merchants and in 1400 had to sell half of his castle to Hans Zenger von Zangenfels , with whom he was closely related. Later the castle came entirely to the Zenger, a noble family widespread in the Upper Palatinate . In 1520 Georg von Murach inherited the castle, which then frequently changed hands and in 1606 was described in a sales deed as dilapidated and dilapidated. In the meantime the owners were the barons of Weichs , the barons of Muggenthal and Dietrich Heinrich von Plettenberg . The castle was finally destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . From 1999 to 2002 security and restoration measures as well as archaeological excavations were carried out.

description

Only parts of the residential tower with the toilet bay and large window openings have survived from the former castle complex with a small inner castle , in which counterfeiters are said to have been up to mischief once . The rampart and moat , which separated the castle on the east side from the surrounding area, can still be seen and indicate the size of the former outer bailey . The Burgplatz is now a ground monument . The area at the summit is designated as nature reserve 372.011 nature reserve Pfahl-Ruin Schwärzenberg , as geotope 372R022 "Burgberg der Schwärzenburg" and as a natural monument "Pfahlquarzfelsen am Schwärzenberg". The quarry southwest of the castle ruins is also listed as geotope 372A089.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 284-288.
  • Bernhard Ernst, Claus Vetterling: The history of the castle ruin Schwärzenberg based on written sources and archeology, Cham district . In: Contributions to archeology in the Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 5 . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2002, ISSN  1617-4461 , pp. 219-232.
  • Karl Schwarzfischer: The district of Roding. Economy, landscape, history and culture of a border district . 2nd Edition. Edited by the district of Roding , complete processing by Karl Schwarzfischer, Roding 1959, pp. 30–33.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 94.

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