Burgstall maple

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Burgstall maple
Burgstall Ahorn - view of the chapel from the east

Burgstall Ahorn - view of the chapel from the east

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 Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '37.7 "  N , 11 ° 22' 30.4"  E
Height: 443  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Ahorn (Bavaria)
Burgstall maple

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.

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