Gensberg castle ruins

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Gensberg castle ruins
Alternative name (s): Goose Mountain
Creation time : Mentioned in 1319
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Ruin, wall and moat remains
Place: Großmehring - Kleinmehring
Geographical location 48 ° 45 '39.5 "  N , 11 ° 31' 4.7"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '39.5 "  N , 11 ° 31' 4.7"  E
Height: 360  m above sea level NHN
Gensberg Castle Ruins (Bavaria)
Gensberg castle ruins

The Gensberg castle ruins , also known as Gänsberg , are the ruins of a moated castle in the Kleinmehring district (Am Gensberg 1) of the Großmehring community in the Eichstätt district in Bavaria .

Remains of the curtain wall and moat are still preserved from the medieval water castle of the type of a tower hill castle (moth) .

The earliest mention of a local nobility there was in 1319 with Ulrich Haslär von Zagelheim , Zageheim was the earlier name of Kleinmehring. The castle itself can only be documented in 1356 , when a knight Wolfart der Zenger von dem Gennsperg was named. It was a fiefdom of the Benedictine convent in Neuburg an der Donau . After the Zengern, the castle came into the possession of the Lords of Hemberg, and in 1417 a Ullrich Hemberger sold it to Duke Ludwig VII the Bearded . The castle was probably destroyed in the Schmalkaldic War in 1546 . In 1983 the castle hill was modernized.

literature

  • Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, pp. 140–141.
  • Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
  • Karl Zecherle (editor): Castles and palaces . Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park. Ed .: District of Eichstätt. 2nd unchanged edition. Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1987, DNB  944206697 , p. 84–85 (text on the website “naturpark-altmuehltal.de” from this book).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1316 at Zecherle
  2. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 140 f.