Burgstall Altes Haus (Roggenstein)

Castle old house
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, valley edge location
Conservation status:	Left, dig received
Place:	Vohenstrauss
Geographical location	49 ° 38 '15.8 "  N , 12 ° 15' 43.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '15.8 "  N , 12 ° 15' 43.3"  E
Height:	510  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Old House is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the edge of the valley of Luhe few meters southeast of the Wendelinstraße or south of Althaus Route in the town Roggenstein (Vohenstrauß) in Upper Palatinate Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria . This castle complex is believed to be the first castle in Roggenstein and the ancestral seat of the Lords of Rackendorf, today's Roggendorf, who have been attested since the 12th century. Only a partial ring moat with an outer wall has survived from the former castle . The site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6339-0016 "Medieval Castle Stables".

history

The old house , located southeast of Roggenstein, seems to have been the original seat of the Rakkendorfer . An Albert de Rakkendorf is mentioned in 1150 as a witness and co- sealer of a deed of donation from the Willhof brothers to the Reinbach monastery .

Presumably they donated the old house together with the hammer mill to the Waldsassen monastery . After that, the family left this seat, because in 1454 an Ulrich de Rakkendorf is reported who lived in Ullersricht and was a judge in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . From the 14th century, the two noble residences , the old house and the Roggenstein Castle , are separated in Roggenstein.

In 1352 the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg acquired the southern part of Roggenstein from the Waldsassen Monastery and made it the Hofmark Rakkendorf. The hammer owner Konrad Wolentzhofer , citizen of Amberg, got the seat and the hammer mill below from the landgraves in 1382. The hammer mill must have been very profitable, because in 1400 the landgraves borrowed 400 Rhenish guilders from the hammer master ; as a pledge, they left him the villages of Lerau and Wieselrieth (now also part of Leuchtenberg ).

Niklas von Stein auf dem Pfreimdtal , who had already acquired the northern part with Roggenstein Castle in 1404, also bought Hofmark in 1419. The new landlords called themselves Barons von Stein zu Stein in Rackenstein . Thus, even the village received its present name from Rakkendorf is about Racke stone the place name Roggenstein become.

The castle stables are now owned by the hammer mill; the surrounding fields are called old house fields . In 1833 there was a three-course Luhmühle and Hauknermühle in Roggenstein . In the latter, the stationary hammer mill was converted into a glass loop . In 1851 the Luhmühle was sold to Müller Wurm, and the manufacturer Bloch bought the glass ribbon. In 1859 the hammer mill came to the Herold family.

description

The wooded castle site is located on the steeply sloping edge of the valley at 510  m above sea level. NHN height, and thus around 50  meters above the valley floor of the Luhe. It is located around 125 meters south of Altausweg 3. The east side of the castle was naturally well protected by the steep slope of the terrain, with a flat Jura plateau to the west. On this side, the castle complex had to be secured by a ditch with an outer wall.

The oval castle site measures 40 meters from north-north-west to south-south-east and 30 meters from east-north-east to west-south-west. A roughly semicircular ditch that is still 2.5 meters deep separates the castle site from the agricultural plateau in the west. The ends of the trench run a few meters down the steep slope to the Luhe. On the outside of this ditch there is a wall as an additional obstacle to the approach, it is still clearly preserved in places. There is rubble with mortar residue on the inner surface of the system.

literature

• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 233.
• City of Vohenstrauß (Ed.): Vohenstrauß in the course of time: local history on the history of the city on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of its first mention 1378 - 1978. Vohenstrauß 1978, pp. 49–57.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric site monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 233
2. ↑ List of monuments for Vohenstrauss (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 1 MB)
3. ↑ Therese Thonn-Wolf: 700 years: Rackendorf - Rackenstein - Roggenstein. In "What our homeland tells us - local history supplement of the Oberpfälzer Nachrichten, No. 6 from June 1972 and No. 7 from July 1972.
4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
5. ^ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 233