Zant castle ruins

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Zant castle ruins
Zant Castle

Zant Castle

Creation time : Late 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Ruins
Place: Ursensollen - Zant - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 22 '22 .3 "  N , 11 ° 46' 13.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '22  .3 " N , 11 ° 46' 13.3"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NHN
Zant castle ruins (Bavaria)
Zant castle ruins

The Zant castle ruins are the remains of a hilltop castle on a ridge that slopes steeply on three sides on the western tip of the castle hill at 510  m above sea level. NHN north of Zant , a district of the Ursensollen municipality in the Amberg-Sulzbach district in Bavaria . About 300 meters to the southwest is the castle stables of the former Zant ring wall .

history

The castle was built at the end of the 12th century by the Lords of Zant as the ancestral seat and mentioned in 1130. 1132 Luitpold de Zante is mentioned in the donation book of the Obermünster Abbey. The lords of Zant can be traced here up to the 14th century (Otto von Zant 1287 and 1319, Ulrich von Zant 1326, Wernher Zantner 1340), then they seem to have migrated to one of the castle estates of Rieden . Heinrich and Ulrich Liebenecker are in Zant between 1398 and 1438, towards the end of the 15th century the Zanters are again the local owners: In 1480 Andres Zant appears in the registers of the Landsasen, followed by Karl Zanter until 1499; until 1570 they are the owners of the castle. In 1575 they can be found in Münchszell , but until 1598 they were enfeoffed with Zant's tithes . Between 1579 and 1580 Philipp von Kemnath zu Zant and Hohenkemnath is mentioned here . In 1585 Wilhelm Rummel called himself from Lonnerstadt to Zant. The Rummels stayed on Zant until 1807. They were replaced by the Podewils family .

description

Remains of the 7 meter high ring wall with a wall thickness of 1.2 meters and a 5 meter high remnant of the 7 x 8 meter keep with a wall thickness of 1.75 meters as well as the castle chapel , which was built by Freiherr in 1684, are still preserved from the former Randhausburg Johann Joachim von Rummel was converted into today's pilgrimage church of St. Josef .

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate. Friedrich Pustet Verlag, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 .
  • Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: In the footsteps of knights and nobles in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach. Amberg, 1992, pp. 53-54.
  • Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 244–246.

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