Trendel Castle

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Trendel Castle
Creation time : probably 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall, only a few remains are visible
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Polsingen - Trendel - "Burggarten"
Geographical location 48 ° 55 '15 "  N , 10 ° 41' 31.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '15 "  N , 10 ° 41' 31.4"  E
Height: 469.3  m above sea level NN
Trendel Castle (Bavaria)
Trendel Castle

The castle Trendel is an Outbound high medieval hilltop castle at 469.3  m above sea level. NN , which once rose immediately southwest of Trendel on a ridge. Today's Burgstall is located about 400 meters from the center of Trendel in the municipality of Polsingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Bavaria , Germany . The small hilltop castle was the former seat of the local aristocracy, later they moved to the Trendel Castle . Today only barely recognizable remains of the object, which is protected as a ground monument, are visible.

history

The Lords of Trendel were first mentioned in a document in 1150 , they served the bishops of Eichstätt . They built the castle and the village of Trendel during the 12th century, and they also built the hamlet of Mäuskreuth to the west. The castle and the village came to the Counts of Oettingen after the local lords of Trendel died out . They gave up their new possessions as fiefs . Later the castle was no longer inhabited and fell into disrepair during the 14th century. Later the seat of the local nobility was Trendel Castle , located immediately to the north .

description

The Burgstall is located on an elevation that slopes only slightly on all sides, on which the field names “In der Burg” and “Burggarten” lie. Only very few traces of the castle have survived on the mountain hill, which has been shaped by agricultural use, the slope of the mountain sloping to the north has been artificially steepened, in the north and west there is also a terrace that comes from the fortifications of the castle. The place of a keep above a pond can still be seen.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl, Walter E. Keller: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 3: Middle Altmühltal and Franconian Lake District . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-58-X , pp. 86-87.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl, Walter E. Keller: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 3: Middle Altmühltal and Franconian Lake District , p. 86 f.