Burgstall Dürrnhof

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Burgstall Dürrnhof
Ludwig Richter's drawing (1837)

Ludwig Richter's drawing (1837)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg (Wehrspeicher)
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Pfarrweisach - Dürrnhof
Geographical location 50 ° 8 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 14 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 14 ″  E
Burgstall Dürrnhof (Bavaria)
Burgstall Dürrnhof

The Burgstall Dürrnhof is a defunct medieval Niederungsburg (fortified courtyard) on an island in a pond in the village of Dürrnhof , a current part of the municipality of Pfarrweisach in the Haßberge district in Bavaria . The castle is located near Lichtenstein Castle .

history

The Dürrnhof was the seat of a line of the von Lichtenstein family , which first appeared in a document in 1388 with "Apel von Lichtenstein zu Dörnhof". The name already indicates a slightly fortified courtyard, i.e. a tower courtyard. The Siebel family is named as the later owner.

The drawing by Ludwig Richter , presented to medieval archaeologist Joachim Zeune in 1993 , clearly indicates a Franconian weir storage facility , which can be reached via a narrow wooden bridge and consists of a fortified courtyard with a round tower and a residential building that can be accessed via a high entrance . Joachim Zeune has thus provided one of the few reliable proofs of such a “miniature keep” for Franconia.

Nothing has survived from the former fortification, the tower and island have disappeared, the one-story building in the background has remained unchanged to this day.

literature

  • Joachim Zeune: Castles in the Eberner Land, part 2 . (Eberner Heimatblätter, 9). - Boars, 2003
  • Joachim Zeune: “Dörnhöfe and Dürnhöfe” were tower yards! Thoughts on Franconian military storage facilities . - In: Report of the Historisches Verein Bamberg, 131. - Bamberg, 1995
  • Heinrich Habel and Helga Himen (arr.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume VI . Lower Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985

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