Wildenfels castle ruins

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Wildenfels castle ruins
Wildenfels castle ruins

Wildenfels castle ruins

Creation time : around 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Restored ruin
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: Quarry stone masonry, partly also ashlar masonry
Place: Simmelsdorf -Wildenfels
Geographical location 49 ° 39 '26.9 "  N , 11 ° 21' 57.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '26.9 "  N , 11 ° 21' 57.6"  E
Height: 586  m above sea level NN
Wildenfels castle ruins (Bavaria)
Wildenfels castle ruins

The Wildenfels castle ruins were a late medieval aristocratic castle above the village of Wildenfels , a district of the municipality of Simmelsdorf in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .

The castle ruins are freely accessible.

Geographical location

The ruins of the summit castle are located in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park at 586  m above sea level. NN high rocky summit in the Wildenfelser Forest, immediately north of the village of Wildenfels, about 3.3 kilometers east of Hiltpoltstein .

You can reach the ruins by following a sign to the castle ruins in the northern part of the village of Wildenfels.

The Burgstall Strahlfels is within sight , further east the Burgstall Spies , northwest the castle ruins Stierberg , and west the castle Hiltpoltstein . About 2.8 kilometers south-southwest is the rather unknown Burgstall Spitzenberg at 582  m above sea level. NN high mountain of the same name between the towns of Großengsee and Winterstein, where the Winterstein castle ruins are also a medieval manor house.

At the foot of the ruins lies a small cave, the Burghöhle in Wildenfels, which is listed in the Franconian Alb cave cadastre with the cadastral number D 180.

history

View of the Wildenfels castle ruins on an engraving by L. Schlemmer from 1799

According to current knowledge, the castle, perhaps instead of a previous building, was built between 1290 and 1300 by the Lords of Wildenstein , who had their eponymous ancestral seat near Dietfurt an der Altmühl . For the first time in 1323 a Dietrich von Wildenstein zu Wildenfels called himself after the castle.

The originally free castle was given to Emperor Karl IV as a fief by the Wildensteiners zu Wildenfels in 1356 . The castle remained in the possession of the Lords of Wildenstein zu Wildenfels until the end of the 15th century, when it was inherited by the Lords of Leutersheim (also Lentersheim ).

After the Landshut War of Succession , the area around the castle became the sovereign territory of the imperial city of Nuremberg . In 1509 the people of Leutersheim sold the rule with the castle to the brothers Konrad and Friedrich Pelck from Nuremberg. In 1511 the castle became the property of Nuremberg for 1,300 guilders. The city set up a nursing office there.

In 1525 the castle was completely destroyed during the Peasants' War. After the Nuremberg had rebuilt it, it was destroyed again in 1553 in the Second Margrave War by the Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades and subsequently not rebuilt.

In 1827, the western half of the still largely preserved until then crashed after a lightning strike, the keep one. In 1913, the first security measures of the building fabric took place, in 2013/2014 the ruin was completely renovated. Remnants of the palace walls , the keep, other buildings and the surrounding walls remain from the castle .

Today the ruin is a landmark building that characterizes the landscape. D-5-74-158-80 "Castle ruins, considerable remains of the keep and of the buildings attached to it, limestone blocks or limestone quarries, 13th-15th centuries. Century ", as well as a ground monument D-5-6334-0016" Medieval and early modern findings in the area of ​​the Wildenstein castle ruins "recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

photos

  • View of the east side of the keep with the high entrance (January 2012)

  • East half of the Palas (January 2012)

  • View of the conical castle hill from the west (January 2012)

  • Cave portal of the "Burghöhle in Wildenfels", which was probably used as a cellar (January 2012)

  • Interior view of the north-eastern Palswand (September 2011)

literature

  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside - a historical manual based on preliminary work by Dr. Gustav Voit. Self-published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft e. V., Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 , pp. 494-497
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Well-defended Franconia - Volume 3: Castles, fortified churches, city walls around Bamberg, Bayreuth and Coburg . Fachverlag Hans Carl GmbH, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-418-00387-7 , p. 131
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schnabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. Verlag A. Hofmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 143
  • Walter Heinz: Former castles around Rothenberg - a selection, 1st part: From Schnaittach to Wildenfels . ( From Rothenberg and its surroundings. Issue 15/1). Published by the Heimatverein Schnaittach e. V., Schnaittach 1992, pp. 29-42
  • Gustav Voit, Brigitte Kaulich, Walter Rüfer: From the countryside in the mountains to Franconian Switzerland - a landscape is discovered . (Series of publications by the Franconian Switzerland Association, Volume 8) Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 1992, ISBN 3-7896-0511-5 , pp. 167–171
  • Joachim Zeune: Wildenfels castle ruins . In: Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , p. 223
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle tour through Franconian Switzerland . Palm and Enke Verlag, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 231-234

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Wildenfels  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Simmelsdorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 137 kB)