Wappersdorf Castle

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Wappersdorf Castle
General view from the east

General view from the east

Alternative name (s): Burgstall Wappersdorf, Burgstall Schweppermannsburg
Creation time : Mentioned in 1334
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle hill with moat
Geographical location 49 ° 11 '8.6 "  N , 11 ° 28' 15.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '8.6 "  N , 11 ° 28' 15.7"  E
Height: 505  m above sea level NHN
Wappersdorf Castle (Bavaria)
Wappersdorf Castle

The castle Wappersdorf , also Postal Wappersdorf or Postal Schweppermannsburg called, is an Outbound hilltop castle in the formerly independent Upper Palatinate municipality Wappersdorf , now a district of the municipality Mulhouse in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . The Burgstall has been mapped as a ground monument (D-3-6834-0047) by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation since 2012.

description

The Burgstall is located 350 m east of Wappersdorf on a mountain tongue lined with pine trees, which protrudes towards the valley of the Sulz , and 1250 m north of Weihersdorf ; The so-called Teufelsbrunnen is located 150 m to the south .

The castle stable with an area of ​​14 × 18 m on the castle hill is closed off by a rectangular ditch open to the valley ; the trench is 10 to 15 m wide and about 2.5 m deep. Remnants of the wall are not visible; lateral and backward deep, canyon-like are hollow channels dug into the slopes.

Side boundary of Schweppenmannsburg

history

According to the history of the Neumarkt school welfare office, Baron von Löwenthal suspects the ancestral seat of the Schweppermann family to be located in the castle , with arguments relating to the history of the language for the similarity of the place and family name and the observation that the Schwepper men’s coat of arms in the Kastl monastery is cited with the heading Weppermann is shown. There is also the claim that a Schweppermann was born here. However, it was pointed out that no evidence could be found that the Schweppermen were ever wealthy here.

Varia

The name Schweppermannsburg was the reason for the naming of a local shooting club "Schweppermann" in Wappersdorf.

literature

  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district - A guide to historical sites. District of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate (Ed.), Undated
  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , pp. 210-211.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Wappersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Latin language relics in the Bavarian dialect - place names: "Mittelalterlicher Burgstall Ruine Schweppermann", accessed on April 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ David Popp: Seyfried Schweppermann and the sex of the Schweppermanne. Memorandum for the 5th secular fiery of September 28, 1322. Verlag JE von Seidel, Sulzbach 1822, p. 8, accessed on April 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ Otto Piper: "Burgenkunde. Research on the entire building industry and history of castles within the German-speaking area". Verlag Theodor Ackermann, Munich 1895, p. 805.
  4. ↑ "Historical Map of Wäppersdorf" on Bayern Atlas , accessed on 20 April 2020th
  5. ^ Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 202 , above ( [1] [accessed April 20, 2020]).
  6. ↑ 50 years of the shooting club "Schweppermann" Wappersdorf , on neumarkt aktuell on June 27, 2014, accessed on April 19, 2020.