Trautenberg Castle

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Trautenberg Castle
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains, neck ditch
Standing position : Nobles, commoners
Place: Trautenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 49 '35 "  N , 12 ° 6' 56.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '35 "  N , 12 ° 6' 56.4"  E
Height: 472  m above sea level NN
Trautenberg Castle (Bavaria)
Trautenberg Castle

The castle Trautenberg is the ruins of a hilltop castle on a 480  m above sea level. NN high hill near the Trautenberg district of the municipality of Krummennaab in the Tirschenreuth district in Bavaria . Trautenberg Castle was one of the oldest castles in southern Germany , along with Scheyern Castle .

history

The castle was built by the Lords of Trautenberg as their ancestral seat. The noble family of the Trautenbergs had been resident in the area since the 10th century and was first attested by name in 1244 with Marquard de Trutenberch.

After the Trautenbergers had moved to their more conveniently located Reuth Castle in Reuth , they sold the Trautenberg Castle to their relatives, the Pfreimder, who owned it until 1412.

As more owners are to 1557 contactor Leineck until 1570 the Lords of Heldrit until 1573 the Lords of extinguishing joke until 1597, the lords of fire and of Stibar and until 1648 the gentlemen of the Green called. In 1608 Hanns Georg von der Grün built the castle below the castle.

In the 17th century the castle began to fall into disrepair, it came into margravial fief and was handed over to Hans Heinrich von Rabenstein. It was owned by Hans Wilhelm von Hirschberg from 1690 to 1840 , then owned by the middle-class Schneid and Schmid families and, in 1890, by the von Lindenfels family .

Of the former triangular castle complex, only the remains of the shield wall and the deep neck ditch carved into the rock as well as the rubble piles of former buildings and the keep are preserved.

The castle in Trautenberg was built in 1608 below the castle by Hanns Georg von der Grün. It is owned by the Barons of Lindenfels.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . From the series: Works on the Archeology of Southern Germany, Volume 28 . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 , pp. 228-230.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 89.

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