Nordeck castle ruins
Nordeck castle ruins | ||
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Nordeck castle ruins - the round residential tower from the north |
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Creation time : | Probably around 1100 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | ruin | |
Standing position : | Count | |
Place: | Stadtsteinach | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 10 '41.4 " N , 11 ° 31' 4.6" E | |
Height: | 450 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Nordeck castle ruin is a high medieval ruin of a fortress in a spur location , northeast of Stadtsteinach in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach in Bavaria . It consists of the remains of a round residential tower , a prison tower and some foundation walls. The ruin is freely accessible.
Geographical location
The ruins of the Spornburg are located in the Franconian Forest Nature Park , about 450 m above sea level. NN on a mountain spur protruding to the west in the Stadtsteinacher Forest, about two kilometers north-northeast of the town of Stadtsteinach. It stands directly above the wasteland of Mittelhammer in the valley of the lower Steinach .
There are other former medieval castles nearby. A little higher on the same spur are a tower hill and an unknown castle stables . Immediately to the south-west, on the opposite side of the Steinach valley, there is another castle stable on the so-called pulpit, a mountain spur protruding to the east. About 800 meters to the south-west is the ring wall Grüne Bürg or Green Castle, a presumably early medieval fortification. In the Steinachtal upwards, south of the village Wildenstein, the Burgstall Wildenstein is located on a rock ledge into the valley.
history
The former Nordeck Castle was built around 1100 by the Counts of Henneberg . Bishop Eberhard II of Bamberg acquired the castle in 1151 together with Steinach, today's Stadtsteinach . In 1438 it was destroyed in a guerrilla war between the Waldenfelser and the Bishop of Bamberg (see also Waldenfelser feud ). It was rebuilt in the middle of the 15th century. Until the beginning of the 16th century, the castle was the seat of episcopal bailiffs . The robber baron Thomas von Absberg kept kidnapped prisoners hidden there. A legend has been passed on about a captured merchant's son who escaped with the help of the cook. Despite this, the castle was not attacked by the Swabian Federation during the Franconian War in 1523 . At that time it was the seat of the Bamberg bailiff Jörg von Wildenstein . The castle was destroyed and abandoned in the Peasants' War in 1525 .
literature
- Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Stadtsteinach district . In: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , Kurzinventare, XX. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1964, p. 102.
- Wilhelm Mages: After the peasant attack, all that remained was a heap of rubble . In: From the Franconian homeland , No. 6/1995, supplement to the Bayerische Rundschau , Bayerische Rundschau, Verlag & Medien GmbH & Co. KG, Kulmbach 1996.
- Wilhelm von Reitzenstein : Nordeck Castle again . In: Franconian Forest and adjacent areas - monthly for home care and hiking, news sheet of the Franconian Forest Association . Issue 7/8, year 1929. pp. 93–95.
Web links
- The Nordeck castle ruins in Steinachtal on stadtsteinach.de
- History of the castle on the side of the Franconian Forest Nature Park
- Historical reconstruction drawing
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Seiffert : Say . In: Between Waldstein and Döbraberg . Booklet 3. Helmbrechts 1963. p. 53.