Burgstall Old Castle (Endsee)

Burgstall Old Castle
Creation time :	probably before 1100
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, small remains
Construction:	Humpback cuboid, stone house
Place:	Steinsfeld - Endsee - "Endseer Berg"
Geographical location	49 ° 26 '32.9 "  N , 10 ° 14' 28.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '32.9 "  N , 10 ° 14' 28.8"  E

The Postal Old Castle is an Outbound Spur castle on a spur of 471  meters above sea level. NHN high Endseer Berges northwest of Endsee , a current part of the municipality of Steinsfeld in the district of Ansbach in Bavaria .

history

The castle, which was built by the Lords of Banner before 1100, the successor to the Endsee tower hill castle west of the village, came into the possession of the Hohenlohe family after it died out and was sold by Gerlach and Gottfried von Hohenlohe together with the village to Rothenburg . In 1407, on imperial orders, which had been preceded by a dispute between Burgrave Friedrich von Nürnberg and the imperial city of Rothenburg, the Endsee Palace was demolished and razed . The blocks are said to have been used for the construction of St. Jacob's Church in Rothenburg.

Remains of a wall and moat system , a well shaft made of house stones and foundations of the former keep made of humpback ashlar are still evidence of the former castle complex .

literature

• Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 147.
• Tilmann Breuer (editor): Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bavaria I. Franconia. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN 978-3-422-03051-0 , Munich 1999.
• Hans Karlmann Ramisch: District of Rothenburg ob der Tauber (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 25 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, DNB  457879254 , p. 27-28 .

Web links

• Entry on Burgstall Altes Schloss in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Entry on Burgstall Altes Schloss in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and Castles in Middle Franconia - A complete representation of all the palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts , p. 147
2. ↑ Endsee history Endesee
3. ↑ Endsee  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at gemeinde-steinsfeld.de  
4. ↑ Monuments in Steinsfeld (PDF; 137 kB)