Burgstall Bodenwohr

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Burgstall Bodenwohr
Location of the castle stable on the right, undeveloped bank of the Hammerweiher

Location of the castle stable on the right, undeveloped bank of the Hammerweiher

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside castle
Conservation status: Gone, castle site with moat received
Place: Bodenwöhr - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 16 '29.6 "  N , 12 ° 18' 24.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '29.6 "  N , 12 ° 18' 24.9"  E
Height: 375  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Bodenwöhr (Bavaria)
Burgstall Bodenwohr

The Burgstall Bodenwöhr is a lost medieval hilltop castle on the Schlossberg above and partly in the Hammerweiher , around 570 meters north-northeast of the Catholic parish church of St. Barbara in the municipality of Bodenwöhr in the Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf in Bavaria , Germany . Only a moat has survived from the complex on a mountain spur . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6739-0007: "Medieval castle stables".

Memorial stone to the Bavarian Constitution in the area of ​​the Burgstall

History and description

No historical or archaeological information is known about this hillside castle , it is roughly dated as medieval . The castle site is referred to as the “Old Castle” on the map from 1769 by the chief vet Fuhrmann von Bodenwöhr. Later it was also called "Kellerl", after a brewery cellar that was built in the area of ​​the castle during the 19th century and that seriously disrupted the complex. In 1843 a stone column was erected on the castle site to commemorate the Bavarian constitution of 1818.

The now wooded Burgstall is located on the east bank of the Hammerweiher or on the western slope of the Schlossberg at around 375  m above sea level. NN height. A castle area with a diameter of around 18 meters is separated from the gently sloping mountain slope by a semicircular moat six to nine meters wide.

literature

  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 281.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Bodenwöhr (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 135 kB)
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 281