Burgstall Bach (Todtenweis)

Burgstall Bach
Creation time :	probably 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Ministerialenburg
Place:	Todtenweis -Bach
Geographical location	48 ° 32 '2.1 "  N , 10 ° 54' 57.5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '2.1 "  N , 10 ° 54' 57.5"  E
Height:	460  m above sea level NN

The high medieval Burgstall Bach (Schlossberg) is located about 300 meters southwest of the Todtenweiser district of Bach in the district of Aichach-Friedberg in Swabia . Only the earth cone of the main castle has survived on the terrain spur.

history

The hill seems to have been settled or occasionally visited as early as the Neolithic Age. Between 1975 and 1977 some shards of vessels and a chert scraper from this period were recovered in the moat.

The place Bach appears for the first time in 1280 in the land register of Duke Ludwig the Strict . In 1343 a Nikolaus Stumpf sat as a ducal servant on the farm "ze dem Bach", around 1420 a Wilhelm Sandizeller is mentioned, whose brother was married to Dorothea von Holzheim "am Pach" in his first marriage.

In 1435 Lienhart Stumpf zu Bach sold the Hofmark for 400 pounds pfennig to the "Foundation of the Sixteen Psalterists" in Ingolstadt , but retained the lifelong right of use. For this he committed himself to an annual interest levy of 25 pounds and 5 shilling pfennigs. In 1453 the foundation bought back this “Leibgeding” for 60 pounds pfennigs

In 1490 the duke passed the foundation on to the University of Ingolstadt (high school), to which the Bach rule was a part until modern times.

The old Hofmarksburg above the two courtyards of the village was probably abandoned as early as the 14th century. A layer of fire discovered in 1964 indicates a violent demise of the fortress , which was probably only fortified by palisades . It is possible that Augsburg troops destroyed the small castle during the city war from 1387 to 1389. The local historian Böheimb claims to have seen some brick foundations in the 19th century .

In 1963 and 1973, respectively, the ground monument was affected by the construction of an eastern driveway and the construction of a forest path in the ditch area. Today the castle area is densely forested and not accessible everywhere.

description

Burgplatz lies on a nearly 480 meter high spur of the Lechleite and is separated from the ridge of the hill by an arched ditch up to five meters deep. The moat originally ran around the entire castle cone, but has flattened into a wide berm on the steep slope in the west .

The irregular oval earth cone of the main castle (approx. 45 x 60 meters) towers over the forecourt by about two meters. Measured from the bottom of the trench, this results in a wall height of up to seven meters. Steep slopes protect the complex in the north and west.

The neck ditch is accompanied on the northwest side by an outer wall, which in some places still reaches a height of about two meters. However, this wall was largely leveled by the construction of the road. On the south-west side of the almost flat interior, two pits indicate the location of buildings. Remnants of roof tiles can also be documented here.

No clear features of a former outer bailey are recognizable in the forecourt . However, a small, level plateau jumps out of the slope about 120 meters south of the castle site. Hubert Raab interpreted this lead in 2008 "with great caution" as the outer bailey of the Hofmarksburg. The topographical situation makes this entirely plausible, especially since the alleged access to the main castle was here on the southern slope edge. When the road was built, the outer wall west of the entrance was broken through after 2000. Here fragments of semicircular roof tiles were found, which indicate a tower location.

The gate of the core castle should originally have been on the south side. Here a small cut in the terrain is accompanied by one of the two pits - maybe a tower. The farmyard of the castle was below in Bach, the castle mill to the north on the Edenhauser Bach.

The former Hofmarksburg on the Schlossberg is the northernmost of the three weir systems in the Todtenweis municipality. About one kilometer to the south, the extensive earthworks of the alleged Hungarian defense castle Pfarrerschanze have been preserved. Another 1000 meters to the south, the forest hides the large Burgstall Sand , which was probably also an early medieval fortification that was still used as the Wittelsbachers' Vogtburg in the High Middle Ages .

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval castle stables under monument number D 7-7431-0015.

literature

• Hubert Raab: Hofmarksburg Bach . In: Todtenweis - From the royal court and monastery village to the modern community . Todtenweis 2008, pp. 106-108.
• Helmut Rischert: The three castles of Todtenweis . In: Altbayern in Schwaben - Yearbook for History and Culture 2003. Aichach 2003, ISBN 3-9802017-5-9 .

Topographical survey

• Medieval fortifications and castle stables in the Aichach-Friedberg district . In: Altbayern in Schwaben - Aichach-Friedberg district 1984–1987. Aichach 1987, ISSN  0178-2878

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.