Borstadel Castle Stables

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Borstadel Castle Stables
Creation time : Probably 12th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Place: Hollstadt - "Stationsberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 20 '59.8 "  N , 10 ° 17' 3.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '59.8 "  N , 10 ° 17' 3.8"  E
Height: 227  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Borstadel (Bavaria)
Borstadel Castle Stables

The Postal bristle Adel is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the hill station just above the valley of the Franconian Saale, approximately 500 meters southwest of the Catholic Church of St. James the Great the community Hollstadt in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-grave field in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle complex, it is roughly dated as medieval. Only a simple moat has survived from the system on the steep slope. The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-6-5627-0035: "Medieval castle stables".

history

The castle could have been built during the 12th century by Dietricus de Holinstat (Dieterich von Hollstadt), he appears in the sources in 1157 as a documentary witness to a donation for the Banz monastery . Another mention of the family took place in 1258, when the soldier Morlinus de Holnstat milites was mentioned in a document. It is not known when and why the seat of the Holstadt family was given up.

According to popular tradition, when Sweden invaded the town during the Thirty Years War, the people of Hollstadt sought protection in the moat in 1631/32, which is why it is also known as the Schwedengraben.

description

The castle site is located on the eastern slope of a flat mountain spur of the Stationsberg, which extends from southeast to northwest, at 227  m above sea level. NHN Höhe in the Burgstall forest area. The north and east sides of the former castle complex were naturally well protected by the very steep mountain slope leading to the valley of the Franconian Saale , in the west and south, on the other hand, the mountain spur rises slightly up to its spur crest, thereby elevating the castle site. A semicircular wall was built on these two endangered sides, which is also accompanied by a trench . This trench is ten meters wide and three to four meters deep. The diameter of the castle site is around 150 meters in an east-west direction. The earlier access to the complex was probably in the west, the ditch flattens out here over a length of about two meters.

At the foot of the mountain spur, directly opposite the confluence of the Mitbergsgraben in the Franconian Saale, there is another, square stables of a low castle in the valley level, which is now completely leveled.

literature

  • Reinhold Albert : Palaces and castles in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld: Prehistoric and early historical facilities, castles, palaces and fortified churches in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld . Published by the culture agency of the Rhön-Grabfeld district. Bad Neustadt ad Saale 2014, ISBN 978-3-939959-14-4 , p. 140.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (= Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory. Series B, Volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 157.
  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 28: Bad Kissingen, Franconian Saale, Grabfeld, southern Rhön . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1975, pp. 101-102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Hollstadt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 139 kB)
  3. ↑ Source history: Reinhold Albert: Schlösser & Burgen im Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld: Prehistoric and early historical installations, castles, palaces and fortified churches in the Rhön-Grabfeld district. P. 140.
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia. P. 157.