Neidenstein castle ruins (Hollfeld)
Neidenstein Castle | ||
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Neidenstein Castle - ruins of the residential building |
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Creation time : | last quarter of the 15th century | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
Conservation status: | ruin | |
Standing position : | Free nobles | |
Place: | Hollfeld- Neidenstein | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 57 '6.1 " N , 11 ° 16' 12" E | |
Height: | 410 m above sea level NN | |
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The Neidenstein castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle at 410 m above sea level. NN in the Neidenstein district of Hollfeld in Franconian Switzerland .
history
The complex was probably built in the last quarter of the 15th century by the Lords of Aufseß . In 1488 it was mentioned for the first time in a document from Christoph von Aufseß.
1510 was the castle by Wilhelm von Aufseß Bishop Georg the Diocese of Bamberg to feudal applied. For one reason or another, the von Aufseß family began to quarrel. In this context, the castle and the associated village Gerbersdorf were renamed Neidenstein.
The castle was completely destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525. After the reconstruction, it was attacked and devastated by the Hollfeldern during the Thirty Years' War during the occupation by the Bishop of Bamberg. In 1652/1653 the castle was only mentioned as a ruin.
description
Only remnants of the surrounding walls and the roughly ten-meter-high ruins of the three-storey palace remain .
literature
- Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Reprint from 1972, Kommissionsverlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, pp. 183–186.
- Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle trip through Franconian Switzerland , 2nd edition. Palm and Enke Verlag, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 127-129.
- Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 185-186.
- Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofmann, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland: A cultural guide . Gürtler Druck, Forchheim o. J., ISBN 3-9803276-5-5 , pp. 105-107.