Burgstall Darstein

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Burgstall Darstein
Creation time : 1200 to 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Bergfriedstump, remains of the wall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Waffenbrunn- Darstein
Geographical location 49 ° 17 '39.2 "  N , 12 ° 39' 36"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '39.2 "  N , 12 ° 39' 36"  E
Height: 620  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Darstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Darstein

The Burgstall Darstein is the ruin of a spur castle on a 620 meter high mountain spur near the Darstein district of the municipality of Waffenbrunn in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The castle, whose date of origin is unclear, was first mentioned in the second half of the 13th century and was owned by the Lords of Donnerstein until 1482. In 1332, Konrad the old Donnersteiner and his sons professed to be the owners of Count Palatine Heinrich the Younger and want to serve him for four years, otherwise they will lose their house in Donaerstein . Protwitz Donnerstein promised in 1391, on the orders of Count Palatine Ruprecht , to break off the box opened in Darstein and to strike it in or around the courtyard. H. to be included in the fastening. In the land table from 1488 Wilhelm Pretschleiffer and Wolfgang Schönsteiner are given as owners. In 1503 the manor passed to Gabriel von Parsberg , who thus united Darstein and Waffenbrunn in one hand. In the land table from 1600 Darstein is entered for the last time as a separate Hofmark; the tax authorities treated it as Pertinenz von Waffenbrunn as early as 1577 and 1590.

After the castle changed hands several times, it was abandoned in the 17th century and then served as a quarry. As early as 1651 Darstein was referred to as a long-derelict, uninhabited festival .

investment

The main castle of the Spornburg probably consisted of a donjon , a mixture of residential tower , palas and keep , a castle chapel and an outer bailey . Of the former castle complex, only the stump of the keep, on which a chapel stands today, the remainder of a mighty wall and overgrown wall remains have been preserved. The Burgplatz is now a ground monument .

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 208-211.
  • Max Piendl: The Cham district court (pp. 49–52). (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern booklet 8). Commission for Bavarian History, Michael Laßleben Verlag , Munich 1955.

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