Ansberg Castle Stables

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Ansberg Castle Stables
Ansberg castle stable - site of the former castle, today's St. Veit chapel (January 2017)

Ansberg castle stable - site of the former castle, today's St. Veit chapel (January 2017)

Creation time : The castle nobility was mentioned in 1087
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, Wall
Standing position : Noble Free
Place: Ebensfeld - Dittersbrunn - "Ansberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 3 '48.7 "  N , 11 ° 0' 3.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '48.7 "  N , 11 ° 0' 3.4"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Ansberg (Bavaria)
Ansberg Castle Stables

The Postal Ansberg called the rest of the dialed medieval hilltop castle on the Ansberg at the site of today's St. Vitus chapel on the same Ansberg (Veitsberg) at Dittersbrunn , a district of the market town Ebensfeld in Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria .

history

Ansberg Castle was originally the ancestral seat of a noble family, which was first mentioned in a document in 1087 with "Gozwin de Ansperc" . 1292 it was as a by Bamberger Hochstift conferred fief . Gundel Ochs II of Cunstat ( Burgkunstadt called) with which it was first called. Before the year 1319 the castle appeared one last time as "Castrum Ansberge", after which it disappeared on the documents.

Between 1717 and 1719, Andreas Rheinthaler built the Catholic branch and pilgrimage church of St. Veit on today's Burgstall . At that time a linden wreath with 21 trees was planted around the chapel. The chapel was probably also sung about by Joseph Victor von Scheffel in his Frankenlied from 1859, but he moved it to the Staffelberg . The St. Vitus Chapel goes back to a previous building from the Middle Ages, which in turn probably went back to the earlier castle chapel .

description

The castle site is at an altitude of 460  m above sea level. NN on the Ansberg, a mountain tongue protruding to the west. The Ansberg, which begins as a ridge-like mountain ridge, widens towards the top to a longitudinally oval plateau and, apart from the east side, falls very steeply into the valley of the Main and its side valleys. On the plateau there is an oval, tower-like dome with a height of 3.5 meters and an area of ​​54 by 30 meters. It is the former location of the castle and today's chapel. Around this hilltop, up to the northeast side, there is a ledge one meter lower and three to seven meters wide, the former kennel of the castle. In the northeast this is missing for a length of 12 meters, there the summit drops over a steep slope directly to the plateau. On the west side of the kennel there is still a one meter high wall over a length of 25 meters, which is completely missing on the other sides. In the south, southeast and east the kennel was filled almost to the top of the hilltop. There is no evidence of a ditch around the hilltop. The earlier ascent to the summit was probably in the south, the Burgweg, like today's access path, came from the east to the Ansberg.

In the south-west, where the Ansberg plateau juts out slightly, an additional approach obstacle was created around 40 meters south-west of the summit, a 50-meter-long rampart, accompanied by a ditch on the inside. It was supposed to protect the gently sloping foothills of the Ansberg from an enemy approach.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , pp. 85-86.
  • Tilmann Breuer (arrangement): Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN 978-3-422-03051-0 , Munich 1999.
  • Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . 2nd volume. Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse GmbH, Coburg 1978, p. 200.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 2: The castles of the noble families in the Obermaing area . Verlag EC Baumann, Kulmbach 1955, pp. 12-15.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 154.

Web links

Commons : St. Vitus (Ansberg)  - Collection of images
Commons : Natural monument Lindenkranz on the Ansberg  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ^ Fritz Mahnke: Palaces and castles in the vicinity of the Franconian Crown . Volume 2, p. 200
  3. ↑ Source up to this point: Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, Ownership, Building History and Fates. Part 2: The castles of the noble families in the Obermaing area , p. 12 ff.
  4. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 85 f.
  5. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  6. ^ Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 2: The castles of the noble families in the Obermaing area , p. 12
  7. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 86
  8. ^ Source description: Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 2: The castles of the noble families in the Obermaing area , p. 12 ff. And Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 154