Burgstall Altenburg (Zeil am Main)

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Altenburg Castle Stables
Alternative name (s): Castrum Zilanum
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Construction: Sandstone
Place: Zeil am Main - "Kapellenberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 0 '35.6 "  N , 10 ° 36' 10"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '35.6 "  N , 10 ° 36' 10"  E
Height: 363  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Altenburg (Bavaria)
Altenburg Castle Stables

The Postal Altenburg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on 363  m above sea level. NN on the Kapellenberg east of Zeil am Main in the Bavarian district of Haßberge .

In 1250 Castrum Zilanum , Zeil Castle on the Kapellenberg, was first mentioned in a document. Bishop Heinrich I von Bilversheim handed the castle over to Ludwig de Rotenhagen as a pledge for borrowed money .

The castle complex, 120 meters long and 130 meters wide in the east, had two courtyards, a knight's house , two residential buildings and a castle chapel . There was a tall tower in the upper courtyard. No remains of the former castle have been preserved. In 1954, remnants of sandstone walls 90 centimeters thick were found during construction work , forming a semicircle five meters in diameter open to the west.

literature

  • Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (arr.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments. Archaeological Terrain Monuments, Volume VI: Lower Franconia. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich 1985.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 99.
  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Hrsg.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, pp. 187–188.

Web links

  • Entry on Altenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Mauer, Erwin Marquardt, Rudolf Winkler: Chronicle of the city of Zeil am Main . Volume 1, 3rd edition. City of Zeil am Main 1986, p. 31.