Burgstall Bieberbach

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Burgstall Bieberbach
Burgstall Bieberbach (1998)

Burgstall Bieberbach (1998)

Alternative name (s): Biberbach
Creation time : around 1225
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Egloffstein -Bieberbach
Geographical location 49 ° 43 '40.2 "  N , 11 ° 17' 24"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '40.2 "  N , 11 ° 17' 24"  E
Height: 530  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Bieberbach (Bavaria)
Burgstall Bieberbach

The Postal Bieberbach denotes a Outbound medieval Spur castle at 530  m above sea level. NN on a rock group in the southern local area of ​​Bieberbach, a district of the market town of Egloffstein in the Forchheim district in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1225 by the Lords of Dachstetten. The lords of Egloffstein and the lords of Wichsenstein , who were ministerials of the Bamberg diocese , are named as other owners . The castle was destroyed in the course of the Peasants 'War in 1525 and finally in the Thirty Years' War . At the beginning of the 19th century the remains were removed except for a vault and a cellar.

literature

  • Walter Heinz: Former aristocratic residences in the Trubach Valley - a guide for friends of home and hikers . Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen and Jena 1996, ISBN 3-7896-0554-9 , pp. 186-190.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland . From the series: Publications of the Society for Franconian History Series IX: Representations from the Franconian History, Volume 28. Commission publishing house Degener and Co., Neustadt / Aisch 1990, pp. 239–243.

Web links

  • Entry on Bieberbach in the private database "Alle Burgen".