Burgstall Burk

Burgstall Burk
The castle stable from the east
Creation time :	1100 to 1200
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, castle hill, rampart and moat
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Seeg -Burk
Geographical location	47 ° 39 '38.5 "  N , 10 ° 37' 17.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '38.5 "  N , 10 ° 37' 17.9"  E

The Burgstall Burk is located on the edge of the Seeger district of Burk in the Ostallgäu district in Swabia . The former aristocratic seat is considered to be one of the most vivid examples of a high medieval tower hill castle (Motte) in Bavaria .

history

View into the reconstructed moat

The main castle from the southwest

Site plan on the information board of the "Burgenregion Ostallgäu-Ausserfern"

Burgstall Burk, aerial view

The defunct Niederungsburg in the swampy plain on the Lobach was probably built in the 12th century as the seat of a Welf family of servants . Between 1138 and 1147 a Suuiker de Seeka appears as a witness in the tradition book of the Weihenstephan Monastery near Freising . A little later, his brother Gerboldus de Seeke and his son Adalgoz are documented several times.

In addition to the Guelphs , the lower nobility family was also obliged to the Augsburg monastery . As a representative Ansitz the Lords of Seeg one was Motte ( "motte") with a spacious bailey . This type of castle is a classic status symbol of the numerous service men of the High Middle Ages. Hundreds of similar castles can be found in the area all over Europe. Such wood-earth castles could be built relatively quickly and inexpensively and were often abandoned or built over after just a few decades.

The castle near Seeg was also probably abandoned at the end of the High Middle Ages. The Füssen councilor Andreas von Seeg , who can be verified from 1494–1514 , certainly no longer lived on the mound above the Lobach.

description

The earth cone of the main castle , which is still around 8.5 meters high , is surrounded by a moat . The trench, which was later backfilled, was partially dug and flooded again by the municipality after 2000. In front of the ditch, you can still see a flat wall or embankment up to one and a half meters high , which probably once supported a row of palisades or a wattle fence.

The flat summit plateau with its diameter of about 25 meters was built with a stately weekend house after the Second World War. Originally a wooden tower or a residential building stood here. Later this structure was replaced by a partly stone new building. For structural reasons, only the ground floor should have been made massive. The pincer holes and saw marks on some tufa blocks found around 1900 prove that this new building cannot be dated before the early 13th century. The excavations at that time were carried out improperly and are poorly documented. At that time and during a new investigation in 1932, some artifacts such as a chest key, mug tiles and a bracteate were found . These finds are dated to the 13th century.

The outer bailey was slightly elevated southeast of the inner bailey. Due to the agricultural use of the area, only minor traces are visible in the area. On aerial photographs , the former overall extent can be recognized well by the different colors of the ground. The surrounding trenches of both parts of the castle were fed by the Lobach, a tributary of the Wertach . The swampy terrain also offered protection from surprise attacks.

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval tower hill under monument number D-7-8329-0004.

The Postal was before the turn of the millennium in the Eastern Allgäu-Ausserfern castle region involved and equipped with an information board in front of the archaeological site. From 2004, 38 castle and palace complexes in the Allgäu were combined to form the Allgäu castle region .

The tower hill can only be viewed from the outside, as the plateau is not open to the public.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Michael Petzet : City and District of Füssen . (Bavarian art monuments, brief inventories, VIII). Munich 1960.
• Joachim Zeune : Castle Guide Ostallgäu and Ausserfern / Tyrol . Marktoberdorf 1998.
• Joachim Zeune: Castles from the Salier period in Bavaria. In: Horst Wolfgang Böhme (Ed.): Burgen der Salierzeit , Vol. 2, Sigmaringen 1991, ISBN 3-7995-4134-9 , pp. 196f.
• Joachim Zeune: Seeg - Bavaria's most beautiful moth . In: Klaus Leidorf, Peter Ettel: Castles in Bavaria - 70,000 years of castle history in the air . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3806213645 .

Web links

• Allgäu castle region

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.