Sengersberg castle ruins

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Sengersberg castle ruins
Alternative name (s): Segensberg
Creation time : around 1269
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : Episcopal Ministerials, Dukes
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Falkenstein -Au
Geographical location 49 ° 7 '45 "  N , 12 ° 28' 18.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '45 "  N , 12 ° 28' 18.6"  E
Height: 613.7  m above sea level NHN
Sengersberg castle ruins (Bavaria)
Sengersberg castle ruins

The castle ruin Sengersberg , also called Segensberg , is the ruin of a hilltop castle on the 613.7 meter high rocky summit of the Sengersberg, 170 meters above the Perlbach near the Au district of Markt Falkenstein in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The castle was first mentioned in 1269 as "Burg ze Segensperch" owned by the Regensburg bishop Leo and was occupied by episcopal ministers . From 1326 the castle is owned by the Bavarian dukes and belongs to Viztumamt Lengenfeld.

The episcopal main ministerial family is in the castle, which came to the Palatinate Wittelsbachers through the house contract of Pavia in 1329 and in 1334 to the Count Palatine Ruprecht until 1337.

In 1343 Calhoch Hofer zu Karlstein got the castle as a fief .

description

The trapezoidal castle complex was divided into an upper and lower castle, probably separated by a section ditch. Remnants of lining walls made of quarry stone in the area of ​​the upper castle probably come from a keep and a residential building. Remains of the western and southern curtain wall of the lower castle, which is in front of a neck ditch in the south , are still preserved.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog , Verlag Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 33-35.
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate , Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 95.

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