Dornstadt Castle Stables

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Dornstadt Castle Stables
Creation time : 800 to 1000
Castle type : Location, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle hill
Standing position : Nobility
Place: Auhausen - Dornstadt
Geographical location 49 ° 0 '16.9 "  N , 10 ° 35' 5.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '16.9 "  N , 10 ° 35' 5.3"  E
Height: 445  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Dornstadt (Bavaria)
Dornstadt Castle Stables

The Postal Dornstadt is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in the area of the property Hirsch Straße 7 in the village Dornstadt the community Auhausen in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

The relatively well-preserved castle stable of the small moth from the period from 800 to 1000 with a wooden tower house still has an approximately five meter high, truncated pyramid-shaped castle hill with a surface area of ​​around 22 by 22 meters. It was protected by a 3 to 3.5 meter deep moat in the north and north-east and a slope sloping down to the south-west, as can be seen from a notice board on the “Archaeological Educational Path Nördliches Ries”.

The castle site is now protected as a ground monument number D-7-6929-0002: "Castle Stables of the Middle Ages".

Presumably the castle served an early local rule , a lower aristocratic family, as the administrative seat of a secular or clerical power, whereby the lords of See and around 1413 the lords of Geißelheim are assumed.

literature

  • Horst Gutmann: Burgstall in Dornstadt . In: Hans Frei, Günther Krahe: Archaeological walks in the Ries . (Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Swabia, 2). Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2nd revised edition. Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-8062-0568-X , pp. 176-177.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Auhausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 129 kB)