Hohenburg castle ruins (Hohenfels)
Hohenburg castle ruins | ||
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Hohenburg castle ruins - view of the castle hill from the south-east |
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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 | |
Height: | 520.9 m above sea level NN | |
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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 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
Individual evidence
- ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6736 Velburg
- ↑ US exercise area Hohenfels: No access to Hohenburg on www.burgerbe.de, accessed on August 23, 2015