Waldenfels Castle (Wallenfels)

Waldenfels Castle
	20th century chapel on the castle grounds
Alternative name (s):	Wallenfels
Creation time :	between 1213 and 1244
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Wallenfels - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	50 ° 16 '7 " N , 11 ° 28' 40.7" E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '7 " N , 11 ° 28' 40.7" E
Height:	477 m above sea level NHN

The Burgwald rock , even Wallenfels called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 477 m above sea level. NHN high Schlossberg about 250 meters north of the church in Wallenfels in the Kronach district in Bavaria .

Presumably, the castle was 1,213 to 1,244 by the Diocese of Bamberg in Nordgau (Bavaria) to protect the Bambergischen manorial built and in 1195 by Bishop Otto II. His nephew, the Duke Berthold of Andechs-Meran to fief given. With the Ministerial Eberhard de Waldenvels, who in 1248 testified to a donation from his feudal lord, Duke Otto II of Meranien to the Banz monastery , the name " von Waldenfels " was first mentioned in a document. The castle was eponymous seat of the Waldenfelser.

Between 1384 and 1386, the castle was expanded and rebuilt. In 1525 at the latest, the castle was destroyed in the course of the peasant war.

The neck moat and an impressive ring moat around the main castle are still preserved from the former castle complex

literature

Karl Bosl (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 7: Bavaria (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 277). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .
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, pp. 109–110.
Otto Frhr. von Waldenfels: The barons of Waldenfels . Self-published 1952–1970.

Entry on Wallenfels, Schlossberg, Burg Waldenfels in the private database "Alle Burgen".