Schönart Castle ruins
Schönart Castle ruins | ||
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Part of the ruin |
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Alternative name (s): | Old castle | |
Creation time : | 1268 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | small remains of the wall | |
Standing position : | Noble | |
Place: | Eußenheim- Schönarts | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 57 '46.8 " N , 9 ° 49' 5.8" E | |
Height: | 194 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle ruin Schönarts , also called Alte Burg , is the remainder of a spur castle on an approximately 194 meter high terrain spur west of the hamlet of Schönarts in the municipality of Eußenheim in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart in Bavaria .
history
The castle was built in 1268 by the Lords of Henneberg and called "Castrum Schonenhart". While construction was still going on, the then bishop Iring von Reinstein of the Würzburg monastery ordered the construction freeze and the demolition of the castle by decree , as he saw it as a threat to the predominance of the diocese in the Karlstadt region . There is no evidence that the castle was rebuilt.
The castle site still shows the rest of an outer wall, the foundations of the keep and the ramparts of the moat on the slope side.
literature
- Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . 1st edition. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , p. 359.
Web links
- Schönarts Castle , burgenwelt.de
- Castle ruins in Franconia Schönarts castle ruins , burgruinen.blogspot.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia. 2012, p. 359.