Altenberg Castle Stables

Altenberg Castle Stables
Alternative name (s):	Old Birg
Creation time :	Probably 10th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, section wall and moat received
Place:	Thalmässing - Stauf - "Altenberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 7 '7.2 "  N , 11 ° 13' 1.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '7.2 "  N , 11 ° 13' 1.3"  E
Height:	553  m above sea level NN

The Altenberg Castle Stable , also known as the Alte Birg , is a defunct high medieval aristocratic castle that once stood on the crest of the Altenberg. The Burgstall is located in the Roth district immediately northeast of the Stauf district of the Central Franconian municipality of Thalmässing in Bavaria , Germany . Little is known about the castle, it could be a predecessor of the nearby Stauf Castle . The beginning of the complex could be dated to the 10th century, at that time it was probably only secured by the section wall, later it was reduced to the area delimited by the ring moat . Only several ramparts and ditches have survived from the hilltop castle; the site is now protected as a ground monument.

Geographical location

The site of the former hilltop castle is located about 3400 meters north-northwest of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of Sankt Gotthard in Thalmässing or about 400 meters northeast of the center of Stauf at 553  m above sea level. NN high Altenberg . This mountain rises above the valleys of the Thalach and its tributaries such as the Schwimmbach and the Naßwiesgraben in the south, and the Roth and its tributaries in the north. To the west closes, separated by a mountain saddle , in which the village of Stauf is also located, the 535  m above sea level. NN high castle hill with the ruins of Stauf. The oval crest of the Altenberg , stretching from west to east , drops steeply on all sides, to the north and south about 130  meters in altitude into the surrounding valleys, to the west and east only a few meters before neighboring mountains, as in the east connect the Eiterbühl.

There are other former medieval castles in the vicinity: in addition to the immediately adjacent Stauf castle ruins, about three kilometers southeast of the Burgstall Landeck , eight kilometers west of the Burgstall Schlossberg above the village of the same name and six kilometers east of the ruins of Burg Hofberg or Obermässing. Another possible medieval castle complex was above the nearby town of Schwimmbach at 527.3  m above sea level. NN high knoll in the beaver wood.

description

The area of ​​the castle on the hilltop is delimited by a 45 meter long section wall from the saddle to the Eiterbühl, which adjoins to the east. This now only flat wall is about six meters wide and still 1.50 to two meters deep ditch presented, which extends along moves from north to south, and expires at the respective slope edges. On the 130 meter long castle area formed in this way, a ring moat follows about 25 meters west of the section wall. This five to nine meter wide trench secured the approximately 45 meter diameter peak of the mountain in the west, south and east (Fig. 1). This trench is completely absent to the north. The oval, three-quarter-round ditch is now only a flat wall, which is almost completely sanded in the south. In the south-west there are two more walls, which descend at right angles for a few meters down the slope.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as "Medieval Castle Stables" has the monument number D-5-6833-0219.

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Image 1: View of the castle hill (July 2013)

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 111-113.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 113
2. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bayern Viewer
3. ↑ According to the entries of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
4. ^ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 111 f.
5. ↑ List of monuments for Thalmässing (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 161 kB)