Speckerturm castle ruins

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Speckerturm castle ruins
Speckerturm (2017)

Speckerturm (2017)

Alternative name (s): Speck, Specker Tower, Speckstein Castle
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ruin, tower ruin preserved
Place: Bad Endorf - Hirnsberg
Geographical location 47 ° 52 '43.7 "  N , 12 ° 17' 9.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '43.7 "  N , 12 ° 17' 9.4"  E
Height: 530  m above sea level NHN
Speckerturm castle ruins (Bavaria)
Speckerturm castle ruins

The Speckerturm castle ruins , also known as Speck or Specker Turm , are the ruins of the Speckstein Castle . The Spornburg lies on the slope of the Ratzinger Höhe at 530  m above sea level. NHN east of Hirnsberg , a district of the Bad Endorf municipality in the Rosenheim district in Bavaria .

history

Not much is known about the castle today; in older literature it is equated with the Answer Castle, an Alt-Hirnsberg Castle or a predecessor of the Hirnsberg Castle .

It is possibly named after the neighboring farm "Beim Specker" and was built in the 12th century by the Lords of Hirnsberg, feudal people of the Counts of Falkenstein-Neuburg , and was probably a neighboring castle of Hirnsberg Castle.

Of the former castle complex with a castle square measuring 20 by 25 meters, only the 7.5 meter high core masonry of the square residential tower or the keep with a base area of ​​7 by 7 meters in the southeast corner is preserved.

literature

  • Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, pp. 391–394.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 228-229 .
  • Josef Rosenegger, Lore Sommerauer: Dilapidated castles between Inn and Salzach . Pannonia Verlag, Freilassing 1973, ISBN 3-7897-0028-2 , pp. 38-39.

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Speckerturm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry on Speckerturm in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of architectural monuments in Bad Endorf , Letten
  2. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 393.
  3. ↑ Werner Meyer: Burgen in Oberbayern , p. 228.