Egelsburg Castle Stables

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Egelsburg Castle Stables
Creation time : around 1140
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Noble Free
Place: Deuerling- Hillhe
Geographical location 49 ° 1 '48.3 "  N , 11 ° 54' 34.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '48.3 "  N , 11 ° 54' 34.8"  E
Height: 445  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Egelsburg (Bavaria)
Egelsburg Castle Stables

The Egelsburg Castle Stables is an abandoned aristocratic castle from the High Middle Ages . It is located in the Hillohe district of the Deuerling community in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria , Germany . The Burgstall is now a ground monument .

history

The current name of the Egelsburg, known as “stone” (rock, castle) in 1147, is derived from the lord of the castle Egilolf von Stein. The end of the hilltop castle came with the extinction of the Lords of Stein towards the end of the 12th century. In Steinerbrückl below the castle there was probably a stone bridge as early as the 11th century - unusual for the time. It was related to the Königsstrasse from Regensburg along the Labertal to Franconia .

Like the other early castles on the Schwarze Laber (Stifterfelsen, Türklmühle, Martinsberg and Eselburg), Egelsburg could also have served to secure and control this important trunk road. Its route was relocated from Deuerling to the Alb plateau via Hohenschambach and Hemau in the 12th century.

The castle, which today has disappeared down to the moats, stood on a limestone rock above the valley of the black Laber. The south side is enclosed by a semicircular outer wall. It is followed by a shallow ditch , a second wall and the neck ditch . A depression on the castle rock served perhaps as a cave , a water hole lined with clay .

The Egelsburg is part of the “Regensburger Burgensteige” and waypoint of the “Deuerling cultural hiking trail”. In the immediate vicinity, only a few 100 meters away, is the Weihenstefen Castle Stable .

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 134-138
  • Hiking map Burgensteige part I, hiking in the land of castles, rivers and rocks. Through the valley of the Schwarzen Laber and the Naab valley .

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