Hohenburg castle ruins (Hohenfels)

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Hohenburg castle ruins
Hohenburg castle ruins - view of the castle hill from the south-east

Hohenburg castle ruins - view of the castle hill from the south-east

Creation time : around 1000
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Margraves, clericals
Construction: Hunchback ashlar and quarry stone masonry
Place: Hohenfels- Hohenburg
Geographical location 49 ° 17 '27.5 "  N , 11 ° 47' 36.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '27.5 "  N , 11 ° 47' 36.6"  E.
Height: 520.9  m above sea level NN
Hohenburg castle ruins (Bavaria)
Hohenburg castle ruins

The Hohenburg castle ruins are a former aristocratic castle that was founded around the year 1000. It is located in the northern municipality of Hohenfels in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The ruin of the summit castle is located in the extreme northwest part of the Hohenfels military training area , about 10.5 kilometers north-northwest of the center of Hohenfels. It is located directly above or southwest of the core town of Hohenburg in the Lauterach valley , which belongs to the neighboring district of Amberg-Sulzbach , and stands on the rocky hilltop of 520.9  m above sea level, which is particularly unwooded in the southwest and south . NN high castle mountain .

history

The rest of the keep on the left and other remains of the wall
Hohenburg castle ruins above the village of the same name from the north

The castle was built before 1000 by the Margraves of Hohenburg from the Diepoldinger family, first mentioned in 1050, to secure a trading route from the Middle Ages that ran from the lower Elbe via Forchheim to Regensburg . The castle came to the Regensburg bishopric through an inheritance contract and was occupied by carers . The castle was expanded and rebuilt several times ( like a castle in the 16th century ), fell into disrepair at the end of the 16th century after the keepers left it, and was demolished after 1812. As the castle is now in the newly established US military training area, a visit is no longer possible.

description

Remnants of walls that can be seen from far away from the Lauterach valley are still preserved from the former extensive castle complex, which had a square keep on the northwestern tip with a round interior, a palas adjoining it in the east with inner and outer limestone ashlar facing and two lavatory cores and a kennel .

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 88.
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: On the trail of knights and nobles in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - castles, palaces, noble residences, hammer estates . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, ISBN 3-924350-26-4 , pp. 29-30.
  • Günter Moser, Bernhard Setzwein, Mathias Conrad: Upper Palatinate Castles - A journey to the witnesses of the past . Buch und Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 2004, ISBN 3-935719-25-6 , pp. 120–121.
  • 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. 51–52.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Hohenburg (Hohenfels)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6736 Velburg
  2. ↑ US exercise area Hohenfels: No access to Hohenburg on www.burgerbe.de, accessed on August 23, 2015