Schauerberg castle ruins

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Schauerberg castle ruins
The last major remains of the castle wall

The last major remains of the castle wall

Alternative name (s): Altschauerberg, Eppala
Creation time : 14th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains, neck ditch
Place: Emskirchen - Altschauerberg
Geographical location 49 ° 32 '6 "  N , 10 ° 42' 14.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '6 "  N , 10 ° 42' 14.1"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NHN
Schauerberg castle ruins (Bavaria)
Schauerberg castle ruins

The castle ruin Schauerberg , also called Altschauerberg or Eppala , is the ruin of a hilltop castle at 370  m above sea level. NHN in a beech forest above Altschauerberg , a current part of the market town of Emskirchen in the Middle Franconian district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim in Bavaria .

history

The castle was the 14th-century castle Office Castle counts of Nuremberg built and the oldest Urbar first performed the Burggrafentums Nuremberg of 1361 as "Ze Schaurberg under the Pürg". After the robber baron Eppelein von Gailingen had attacked the citizens of the imperial city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1377 , he found refuge with Heinrich von Seckendorff , who at that time held the castle hat for the Nuremberg burgrave at the Schauerburg and was a distant relative of Eppelein. In 1388 the castle was destroyed in the city ​​war (1387–89) by the imperial city of Nuremberg . In the 16th century the castle was used as a quarry.

From the former castle complex with a hill-like protruding main castle secured by a wall-ditch system and a southern outer bailey , the design of which could also point to a tower castle or tower hill castle (Motte) from the 11th to 12th centuries, which was in this period from France ago spread throughout Central Europe, a wall rest of the main castle and the U-shaped are still moat preserved.

literature

View into the moat of the castle
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 168.

Web links

Commons : Burg Schauerberg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Werner: The site monument "slos Schawersperg". In: Altstadtverein Fürth, Altstadtbläddla Fürth, No. 40, 2005/2006, pp. 35–37
  2. ^ Entry on Burgrest Altschauerberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".