Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins

Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins
Tower of the Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins
Alternative name (s):	Frankenberg castle ruins
Creation time :	Around 1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	ruin
Construction:	Humpback cuboid
Place:	Weigenheim - Frankenberg Castle
Geographical location	49 ° 36 '35.9 "  N , 10 ° 16' 2.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '35.9 "  N , 10 ° 16' 2.3"  E
Height:	426  m above sea level NHN

The Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins , also known as Frankenberg castle ruins , are the ruins of a medieval hilltop castle north of Weigenheim in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Bavaria in Central Franconia .

location

The area is located on the so-called Herrschaftsberg , which is actually called Waschbuck des Scheinberg, at 426  m above sea level. NHN , about 200 meters northeast above Burg Vorderfrankenberg .

history

Already in Carolingian times there was a fortification of prehistoric times on the witch's chair located 500 m to the east , which is qualified as a ground monument with no .: D-5-6327-0044 .

Hinterfrankenberg Castle (D-5-6327-0043) was built around 1166 and is said to have been destroyed by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa as a robbery . Its ruins were built over in the following years with the Probsteiwald castle ruins (D-5-75-179-7). Remains are still preserved on the plateau: double tower, fountain and wall. It was built as a four-part complex with two main and two outer castles around 1200 by Bishop Konrad von Querfurt and mentioned in 1225 as "castrum".

In 1254, the burgraves of Nuremberg built the Vorderfrankenberg castle as a counter-castle below the Hinterfrankenberg castle due to territorial power struggles. In 1271, Gottfried von Hohenlohe , a relative of the burgraves, became the patron of Hinterfrankenberg Castle, whereupon the Würzburg Bishop Manegold of Neuchâtel handed over the castle to the von Seinsheim brothers, who were sitting at the Vorderfrankenberg Castle . In 1290, Prince-Bishop Manegold transferred the castle to the Provost Heinrich II von Weichmar. After that the castle fell into disrepair and was described as dilapidated in 1344 and in 1397 all cathedral provosts were obliged to pay 40 guilders for the maintenance of the castle. During a feud between the prince-bishop and the margrave, the castle was badly damaged in 1450 and sacked by Sigismund von Schwarzenberg in 1462 . Between 1481 and 1488 the castle was rebuilt by the provost Kilian von Bibra . In 1554 the castle was destroyed together with Hohenlandsberg Castle on the neighboring Hohenlandsberg in the Margrave War by Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades and fell into ruin. In 1600 the gatehouse was inhabited by a forester. In 1674 and 1719 the von Hutten men, who lived at Burg Vorderfranken, tried to acquire the castle in order to be able to use the ruins as a quarry. Between 1803 and 1806 the Baron von Pöllnitz , owner of Schloss Frankenberg, leased the usable areas in the area of ​​the castle, earned the purchase amount with it, and from 1811 had the ruinous remains removed and used as a quarry.

description

The foundations of the ruin, which stands on what is now a densely overgrown hilltop, included the older ring wall made of humpback ashlars, a round keep and a palace .

The castle had a two-part main castle and two front castles to the east , which were secured by dry trenches. Remnants of the wall at the north corner of the main castle still bear witness to its round corner towers. In the middle of the north-west side there was a double tower gate (around 1430-40) above the older curtain wall, made up of two almost fully rounded gate towers. In between there was a gate accessible via a bridge and drawbridge, behind which the round keep was. From 1480 to 1488 the castle entrance was relocated and a gatehouse secured by a narrow gate was built on the south-west side , from which the once still visible construction date MCCCCLXXX (1480) testified. A wall remains on the northeast narrow side of the perimeter development and a protruding triangular pillar can be found on the southeast side.

literature

• Tilmann Breuer (editor): Georg Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia. Munich 1999
• Wilhelm Engel, Walter Janssen, Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles Frankenberg over Uffenheim . Neustadt ad Aisch, 1984.
• Irmgard Ochs (Hrsg.): Schloss Frankenberg - building history investigation . Frankenberg, 2009.
• Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frankenberg's location on the Bayern Atlas Klassik
2. ^ List of monuments in Weigenheim , page 6
3. ↑ Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins at burgen.blaue-tomat.de
4. ↑ Hinterfrankenberg Castle at burgenwelt.de
5. ^ Entry on the Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins in the private database "Alle Burgen".
6. ↑ Hinterfrankenberg castle ruins - existing buildings at hdbg.eu