Burgstall Breitenthal

Burgstall Breitenthal
Burgstall Breitenthal - View of the castle hill over the village of Oed from the north-west
Alternative name (s):	Bergfried near Weigendorf, tower in Weidenthal
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, few remains of the wall of the tower-shaped main building have been preserved
Place:	Weigendorf - Breitenthal - "Felsberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 30 '19.5 "  N , 11 ° 34' 19"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '19.5 "  N , 11 ° 34' 19"  E
Height:	465  m above sea level NN

The Postal Breitenthal , keep in Weigendorf or tower in Weidenthal called, is a Outbound medieval Spur castle on a rocky ridge of the rocky hill above the Etzelbachtal southeast of Oed in Breitenthal , districts of the municipality Weigendorf in Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria .

history

Whether it is in this Burgstall like older literature around 1325 when it was destroyed by troops of the imperial city of Nuremberg called Tower in Weidental acted, is not secure (see also: Postal Hartmannshof ). The tower was then owned by the von Reicheneck family. In more recent literature, the tower in the Weidental is also identified with a castle stable in Hartmannshof. The tower castle was only mentioned with certainty on May 6, 1416 , when a dispute between a Conrad Hartmann and the Nuremberg patrician Hanns Tetzel was settled in a document . The patrician was granted the property rights. The castle was probably damaged between 1421 and 1450 and then abandoned. After 1955, the ruins of the keep was further demolished, so that only a few masonry can be seen today. The two trenches were filled in after 2000, the site is now used as a wood storage area and is privately owned and is therefore not freely accessible.

Rubble mound of the tower-shaped main building (August 2012)

Today the castle stable shows only a rubble hill of the tower-shaped main building, a few remains of the wall and two trenches filled with rubble. The castle stable was declared a monument D-3-71-157-9 “Preserved traces of the neck ditch and remains of the surrounding walls; About 50 meters west of the Breitenthal farm "and as a ground monument D-3-6435-0006" Medieval castle stables "Tower in Weidental" "recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

The small castle complex at 465  m above sea level. NN had a double neck ditch on the east side. The tower-shaped main building had a footprint of 15 by 15 meters and a wall thickness of three to four meters.

literature

• Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . Altnürnberger Landschaft, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 , p. 50.
• Robert Giersch, Werner Sörgel: The keep at Breitenthal and the tower in the Weidental: Two castle places at Hartmannshof . In: Communications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft . 55th year, issue 1, 2006, ISSN  0569-1451 , pp. 17-19.
• Karl Wächter, Günter Moser: On the trail of knights and nobles in the Amberg-Sulzbach district - castles, palaces, noble residences, hammer estates . Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Amberg 1992, ISBN 3-924350-26-4 , p. 24.
• Walter Heinz: Former castles in the vicinity of Rothenberg, Part 3 (Vom Rothenberg and its surroundings, issue 15/3) . Published by the Heimatverein Schnaittach, Schnaittach 1992, pp. 168–171.
• Stefan Helml: Castles and palaces in the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1991, pp. 224–225.
• 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. 137.
• Hellmut Kunstmann : Castle studies: The tower in the Weidental . In: Communications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft . 4th year, issue 2, August 1955, pp. 17-19.

Web links

• Burgstall Breitenthal on the Herrensitze.com site
• Entry on Burgrest Breitenthal in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ^ Source history: Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside , p. 56 ff.
3. ↑ List of monuments for Weigendorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 131 kB)