Burgstall Alte Burg (Deining)

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Burgstall Old Castle
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Geographical location 49 ° 13 '17.9 "  N , 11 ° 32' 2.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '17.9 "  N , 11 ° 32' 2.5"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Alte Burg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Old Castle

The Burgstall Alte Burg is an abandoned hilltop castle near the Upper Palatinate municipality of Deining in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate . It is located approx. 500–700 m southwest of the local church of St. Willibald von Deining in the Alte Burg corridor and is entered as such in the Bavaria Atlas .

description

The Burgstall is located on a mountain tongue between the north-south facing valley of the White Laber and a dry valley that comes from Leutenbach . This mountain tongue is separated from the hinterland to the south and west by a wall with a ditch in front of it for a length of 170 m . The wall turns in on both sides and follows the north or south edge of the plateau, in the north it is preserved along the slope edge until shortly before the end of the mountain peak. A wall in the cross wall has been broken out, as can be seen from a corresponding depression. The main wall has an extension in the middle, which probably comes from the rubble of a tower. The height from the bottom of the trench to the ridge is three meters; Another wall or ditch runs four meters below the edge wall, which is noticeable as a slight step in the terrain. In the east of Burgplatz, ramparts and hollows indicate formerly existing buildings.

Coat of arms of the barons of Löwenthal on Deining

history

The builders of this castle are said to have been the Groß von Altenburg. In 1398 the knight of Altenburg Stephan Groß was mentioned as a witness in a sales letter from Thonhausen to the Schwaiger von Gundelfingen as a witness. Heinrich Groß zu Altenburg was the district judge and caretaker of Dietfurt in 1497 and also owned properties in this area. According to the description of the Neumarkt Mayor's Office by Baron Löwenthal, the Großhof on the road to Neumarkt should also come from the Großhof. Deining and possibly also the castle are said to have been destroyed in 1504 during the Landshut War of Succession . This attribution to the Groß von Altenburg is controversial due to the frequency of the name Altenburg, rather the Herger von Tugingen mentioned in 1131 should have been resident here.

literature

  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 165.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corridor Alte Burg near Deining on the BayernAtlas, accessed on April 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ Stephan Gröschler: Burgstall Deining with 20 images, accessed on April 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 176 , above ( [1] [accessed April 21, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Armin Gugau: Investigations on the Landshut War of Succession of 1504/1505: The Damage and Their Elimination, p. 157.utzverlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8316-4387-5 , accessed on April 21, 2020.
  5. ↑ Latin language relics in the Bavarian dialect - place names - Deining , accessed on April 21, 2020.

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