Adelburg castle ruins

Adelburg castle ruins
Adelburg castle ruins - view of the southwestern side of the upper castle
Alternative name (s):	Adelnburg
Creation time :	12th Century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Parts of the walling
Standing position :	Nobles
Construction:	Humpback cuboid
Place:	Seubersdorf in the Upper Palatinate -Eichenhofen
Geographical location	49 ° 11 '30.2 "  N , 11 ° 39' 50"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '30.2 "  N , 11 ° 39' 50"  E
Height:	610.7  m above sea level NN

The ruins of Adelburg Castle , also known as Adelnburg , are the remains of a former high medieval aristocratic castle in the municipality of Seubersdorf in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in Bavaria .

The ruins of the summit castle are freely accessible.

Geographical location

View of the Kellerberg from the north

The castle ruin Adelburg is located about 1.3 kilometers northeast of Eichenhofen , a northeastern part of the municipality of Seubersdorf, on the wooded hilltop of 610.7  m above sea level. NN high, island-like cellar mountain . To the northwest below lies Velburg - Hollerstetten , to the north the confluence of the small Frauenbach into the Schwarze Laber from the opposite side and to the east Parsberg - Klapfenberg . The ruin can be reached from the federal motorway 3 passing east of the Kellerberg . The top of the Kellerberg can only be reached on hiking trails from the surrounding villages.

Other castles and ruins nearby are the castle in Parsberg and Lupburg Castle , the Velburg castle ruins and the Helfenberg ruins .

History of the castle

Incomplete site plan of the Adelburg from 1904

Remnants of the curtain wall in the north-western area of ​​the upper castle

The hilltop castle was built in the 12th century by the lords of Adelburg and was an imperial fiefdom of the Staufers . In 1180 it was mentioned as de Adelenburg . In 1246 it fell back to the empire and in the following years was often an object of trade and exchange. Other castle owners were the Wittelsbachers and the lords of Parsberg . From 1413 to 1584 the complex was destroyed several times.

The three-part complex consisted of a core castle and two outer castles . Its five-meter-high and 1.45-meter-thick curtain wall, made of the humpback cubes common in the 12th century, is still partially preserved. According to a legend, an underground tunnel from Klapfenberg and Oberweiling is said to lead under the Schwarzen Laaber to the Adelsburg because people in the villages were able to seek protection from troops passing by at the castle.

literature

• Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , pp. 13-15.
• Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 83.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Adelburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Castle ruins Adelburg on Burgseite.de

Individual evidence

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