Burgstall Altenkemnath

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Burgstall Altenkemnath
Creation time : probably 11th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: departed
Place: community Kemnath
Geographical location 49 ° 52 '41.4 "  N , 11 ° 52' 43.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '41.4 "  N , 11 ° 52' 43.7"  E
Height: 466  m
Burgstall Altenkemnath (Bavaria)
Burgstall Altenkemnath

The Altenkemnath castle stable is located near the Upper Palatinate town of Kemnath in the Tirschenreuth district (about 850 m north-northwest of the parish church of Kemnath and 850 m southeast of the center of Berndorf in the corridor In der alten Kemnath ).

It is believed that the castle was founded by the Counts of Schweinfurt . Kemnath itself was then a street station on an old road to Eger . At the beginning of the 12th century the street station came to the Leuchtenbergers , who founded Kemnath in 1250 and sold to the Wittelsbachers in 1283 . Altenkemnath was not mentioned until 1556 in the course of an electoral order that all "unnecessary" churches were to be demolished. The Kemnathers then break half of the little church, so called in the Vhelde and called to Alten Kembnath .

The Burgstall is still a rectangular artificial elevation measuring 50 × 80 m in circumference. The building of the church, which was demolished in 1556, could be identified through aerial archeology . In addition, a cemetery or ring wall could be seen on the south and west edges. The place was not cleared until 1820, and human bones and spores were found in 1857. Due to the lack of written records, it is unclear whether there was a fortification or just the core of a medieval settlement.

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 144–146). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .