Wallenrode Castle

Wallenrode Castle
Burgstall Wallenrode
Alternative name (s):	Wallenrod
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle stable, moats and ramparts preserved
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Unregulated area of ​​Geroldsgrüner Forst - "Burgstein"
Geographical location	50 ° 19 '36.8 "  N , 11 ° 34' 10.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '36.8 "  N , 11 ° 34' 10.2"  E
Height:	575  m above sea level NHN

The castle Wallenrode is an Outbound hilltop castle at 575  m above sea level. NHN on the Burgstein in the Geroldsgrüner forest about 2000 meters west-southwest of the church of Geroldsgrün in the district of Hof in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built in the middle of the 13th century by Albert von Waldinrode, the son of the Meranian Marshal Eberhard Förtsch von Thurnau . It thus became the ancestral seat of the von Wallenrode family , Ministeriale der Andechs-Meranier . After the Meranians died out, the castle came to the bishops of Bamberg . It was still recorded in the episcopal land register A around 1325, but no longer in land register B from 1348, which speaks for a destruction between 1325 and 1348. The land register around 1325 falls into the time of the bishops Johann Wulfing von Schlackenwerth and Heinrich II. Von Sternberg . The destruction took place during the dispute with the Counts of Orlamünde in the dispute over the inheritance of the Meranians.

Two neck ditches and several moats have been preserved from the maximum 314 × 60 meter complex, divided into four sections by moats with a wedge-shaped 8 × 30 meter core . The main castle on the mountain spur is secured by two deep trenches. Two upstream areas, which are separated again by ramparts, are considered to be outer castles. They may reflect different phases of use. Since such walls were built to defend the Hungarians on horseback, there is a theory that the castle already existed at the time of the Hungarian invasions . The site is protected as a ground monument with monument number D-4-5635-0010.

The castle is also known as "Burgstein". The castle Hohenrod is considered predecessor castle. After the destruction, the Wallenrode family moved to the Bad Berneck area and built Neu-Wallenrode Castle there , so that the original castle was also given the name "Alt-Wallenrode".

There are legends about a communion goblet that is said to have been found as a wine goblet near the castle and about a treasure that has not yet been raised .

The cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein completed a very precise map of the castle area for the first time in 1816 with the existing inventory.

literature

• Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
• Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Naila district . In: The art monuments of Bavaria , short inventories, XVII. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1963. p. 29.
• Hellmut Kunstmann : Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 2: The castles of the noble families in the Obermaing area . Verlag EC Baumann, Kulmbach 1955, pp. 174-176.
• Hans Leheis: The finds from Burgstein . In: Frankenwald - magazine of the Frankenwaldverein eV , issue 2/1966. Pp. 26-28.
• Max Weinhardt: Border castles and border witnesses at Geroldsgrün . Geroldsgrün 1988.

Web links

Commons : Burg Wallenrode  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Wallenrod in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 2: The castles of the noble families in the Obermaing area , p. 176
2. ↑ List of monuments for Geroldsgrüner Forst (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 125 kB)