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.
Castles: Buchau Castle | Cottenau Castle | Danndorf Castle | Forstleiten Castle | Green Castle (Mittlerhaus) | Grünwehr Castle | Old Heinersreuth Castle (Wildensteiner Schlösschen) | New Heinersreuth Castle | Jagdschloss Himmelkron | Hummendorf Castle | Jöslein Castle | Kulmbach Palace | Katschenreuth Castle | Kirchleus Castle | Lanzendorf Castle | Neudrossenfeld Castle | Mainschlösschen | Peesten Castle | Rugendorf Castle | Oriental building Sanspareil | Schmeilsdorf Castle | Stadtsteinach Castle | Steinenhausen Castle | Thurnau Castle | Trebgast Castle | Lower Castle (Guttenberg) (Lower House) | Rabenstein'sches Schloss Wirsberg
Castles and ruins: Burg Eulenburg (dismissed) | Neuguttenberg Castle | Altguttenberg Castle (dismissed) | Nordeck castle ruins | Plassenburg | Wartenfels Castle ruins | Wernstein Castle | Wildenstein Castle (exited) | Wirsberg castle ruins | Zwernitz Castle
Tower hill castles (all gone): Tower hill Alladorf | Eisenwind Tower Hill | Tower Hill High Tower | Kunreuth Tower Hill | Lindenberg Castle | Tower hill Mangersreuth | Neuhaus Tower Hill | Oberdornlach tower hill | Partenfeld tower hill (stone house) | Schimmendorf Tower Hill | Tower Hill Castle (Ködnitz) (Vannau Castle) | Schlössle tower hill (Alte Schmelz or Schmölz) | Schwand Tower Hill | Schwedenschanze (Burghaig) tower hill | Tower hill Schwedenschanze (Kulmbach) | Unterauhof tower hill | Vorderreuth Castle | Wartenfels Tower Hill | Zultenberg tower hill
Mansions: Mansion Breitenreuth | Steinbach manor
Castle stables (lost, unknown castles): Burgstall Alladorf | Burgstall on the Heidelknock | Burgstall on the pulpit | Burgstall Castle Hill (Rohrersreuth) | Burgstall Altenhollfeld | Ringwall Grünbürg | Burgstall Hohe Reuth | Castle stable Lösau | Burgstall Rabenstein (Wirsberg) | Burgstall Rauhenstein | Burgstall Turmberg | Castle stable Untersteinach
Fortified churches: Fortified church Grafengehaig (To the Holy Spirit) | Fortified church Marktschorgast (St. Jakob) | Fortified church Trebgast (St. Johannes) | Fortified Church Untersteinach (St. Oswald)