Burgstall Altenkünsberg

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Burgstall Altenkünsberg
Burgstall Altenkünsberg

Burgstall Altenkünsberg

Alternative name (s): Kindberg
Creation time : around 1220
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Castle stable, built-up remains, moat
Construction: Humpback blocks, rubble stone, sandstone
Place: Creußen - Altenkünsberg
Geographical location 49 ° 51 '43.8 "  N , 11 ° 39' 14.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '43.8 "  N , 11 ° 39' 14.9"  E
Burgstall Altenkünsberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Altenkünsberg

The Postal Altenkünsberg , even child Berg called, is an Outbound castle on the district Neuhof at Altenkünsberg , a modern suburb of Creußen in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1220 by the Lords of Künsberg as their ancestral seat. A new building was built between 1404 and 1417 and destroyed in 1461. The castle was rebuilt in the early 16th century and destroyed again in 1591. In 1791 it was canceled. The Lords of Stein are also named as other owners .

The cartographer of the Plassenburg Johann Christoph Stierlein made a detailed plan of the castle ruins in 1792. The plan shows the compact complex on a hilltop adjoining the hamlet. In addition to a square surrounding wall with sides of different lengths, remains of a building wall can still be seen.

The foundations of the approximately two-meter-thick curtain wall and remains of the neck ditch are still preserved from the small castle complex . The remnants of the masonry, which are partly built into a farmhouse, consist of humpback blocks , rubble stone and sandstone .

literature

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon . Weidlich / Flechsig, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-8035-1372-3 .
  • Stefan Benz: Castles and palaces between Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia. Deutsche Burgenvereinigung (Ed.), 2002. In: Burgen und Schlösser. 2/2002, p. 66 ff.
  • Hans Vollet, Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein. The drawings from the collections of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Catalog for the exhibition of the Landscape Museum Obermain on the Plassenburg ob Kulmbach from March 25 to April 24, 1987. Kulmbach 1987.
  • Alfred Schädler : The art monuments of Upper Franconia - II. Pegnitz district . In: The art monuments of Bavaria . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1961. ISBN 3-486-41881-5 . P. 57f.

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