Burgstall amber

Burgstall amber
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Alternative name (s):	Schleeschloss
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, two section trenches have been preserved
Place:	Schwarzenbach am Wald - Bernstein am Wald - "Burgstadel"
Geographical location	50 ° 16 '1.7 "  N , 11 ° 32' 45.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '1.7 "  N , 11 ° 32' 45.2"  E
Height:	530  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Bernstein , also called Schleeschloss , is an abandoned medieval hilltop castle in the Franconian Forest above the Wild Rodach valley, about 900 meters west-southwest of the center of Bernstein am Wald in the Upper Franconian municipality of Schwarzenbach am Wald in the district of Hof in Bavaria , Germany . Only a double trench on a rock spur has been preserved from the system . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5735-0005: "Medieval castle stables".

history

The location of the castle complex is similar to that of the neighboring castles in Rodeck and Schwarzenstein . Followers of the Counts of Henneberg are considered to be their builders. When the town of Bernstein was first mentioned in 1372 and later, the castle was not mentioned and was probably already derelict at that time.

description

The wooded castle site in the spur is about 530  m above sea level. NN height on a mountain spur protruding to the southwest . This small spur dome falls vertically on its south and west side into the valley of the Wild Rodach , which is 100  meters lower , to the northwest, also several meters vertically into a small side valley that descends from the village of Bernstein am Wald. On the north-east side of the castle site, which is not so well protected by nature, where the mountain continues to rise and the castle site so elevated, two ditches lying one behind the other were dug as an obstacle to approach. These trenches carved out of the rock with a slightly outward curve run out at both ends at the slope edges. The distance between the trenches is about 15 meters, the inner trench is about 30 meters long and two meters deep from the outside. The irregular and uneven surface of the castle complex is only eight by six meters. No archaeological finds have been made so far.

literature

• Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Naila district . In: The art monuments of Bavaria , short inventories, XVII. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1963, p. 21.
• 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. 128.

Web links

• Entry on Bernstein am Wald Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Schwarzenbach am Wald (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 131 kB)
2. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
3. ^ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 128