Burgstall Alte Veste

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Burgstall Alte Veste
Burgstall Alte Veste - remains of the former curtain wall

Burgstall Alte Veste - remains of the former curtain wall

Alternative name (s): Old fortress
Creation time : Probably around 1400
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable with a few remains of the wall threatened with removal
Standing position : Bamberg diocese
Construction: Quarry stone masonry
Place: Ahorntal- Oberailfeld
Geographical location 49 ° 48 '55.6 "  N , 11 ° 21' 53.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '55.6 "  N , 11 ° 21' 53.2"  E
Height: 415  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Alte Veste (Bavaria)
Burgstall Alte Veste

The Postal Alte Veste or Old Vestung was an Outbound probably late medieval nobility castle near the village Oberailsfeld in the community Ahorntal in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth in Bavaria ( Germany ).

The castle stable is freely accessible.

Geographical location

The remains of the former Spornburg are located in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldensteiner Forest Nature Park, around 850 meters east-northeast of Oberailsfeld or 3.7 kilometers south of Waischenfeld , on the west side of the Ailsbach valley. The castle lay on a wide mountain spur, which rises rocky about three to five meters, and which is separated from the plateau by a natural broad moat.

You reach the castle stables of the Höhenburg at 415  m above sea level. NHN is best from Oberailsfeld on a hiking trail marked Blaukreuz in the direction of Rabenstein Castle . The path leads directly past the Burgstall.

Rabenstein Castle and Ahorn Castle Stables , now the Klausstein Chapel, are located upstream of the Ailsbachtal . Opposite, above the Ludwigshöhle, is the Burgstall Wal to the high hole , or Hohenloch . Downstream of the Ailsbachtal, in the church village of Oberailsfeld, the Burgstall Oberailsfeld is located on a cliff rising from the valley floor . To the north-west is Rabeneck Castle and to the north the Waischenfeld castle ruins .

History of the castle

Not much is known of the history of the castle. Her name is also unknown.

On June 26, 1406, Bishop Albrecht von Bamberg brought a lawsuit against Burgrave Johann von Nuremberg because of the destruction of the castle and other issues. King Ruprecht should settle the dispute.

The castle was apparently destroyed by Konrad von Aufseß, who at that time was sitting at Rabenstein Castle and was in the service of the Nuremberg burgraves , shortly after it was built. In 1400 the castle Rabenstein was sold by the burgrave to Konrad, with the determination to build 900 pounds there within three years. Rabenstein was therefore destroyed at the time. The Bishop of Bamberg used this opportunity to build a castle that brought the important old road into the Ahorn basin under episcopal control.

The Alte Veste was probably built by a member of the Rabenstein family. At that time, however, the Rabensteiners no longer had any connection to their former ancestral castle Rabenstein or to Rabeneck Castle.

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district. Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , p. 152.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, pp. 224–227.

Web links

  • Entry on Alte Veste in the private database "Alle Burgen".