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Burgstall Ahorn - view of the chapel from the east |
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Alternative name (s): | Klausstein | |
Creation time : | 1050 to 1100 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Place: | Ahorntal - Klausstein | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 49 '37.7 " N , 11 ° 22' 30.4" E | |
Height: | 443 m above sea level NN | |
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The Ahorn Castle Stable , also known as Klausstein , is an abandoned spur castle at 443 m above sea level. NN above the Sophienhöhle instead of today's Klausstein chapel near Klausstein , a district of the Ahorntal community in the Bayreuth district in Bavaria . Not far from there is Rabenstein Castle .
The castle was built around 1050 to 1100 by the Lords of Ahorn as their ancestral seat and was mentioned in 1130. In 1277 the castle was owned by the Bamberg diocese . In 1398, only one chapel on Burgplatz is mentioned in the oldest land register in Bayreuth .
Today the remains of the former castle complex have risen up in the Klausstein chapel and a private house.
The important Bishop of Worms Burchard II († 1149), who had the east work of the Worms Cathedral built, came from the family of the Lords of Ahorn . Presumably he was born in the castle.
literature
- Toni Eckert, Susanne Fischer, Renate Freitag, Rainer Hofamm, Walter Thousand Pounds: The Castles of Franconian Switzerland - A Culture Guide , Area Committee Franconian Switzerland (ed.), 1997
- Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965
- P. Borowitz, R. Bach-Damaskinos: Palaces and castles in Upper Franconia . Nuremberg, 1996.
Web links
- Entry on Ahorn Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Ahorn Castle at burgenwelt.de