Burgstall Eltmann

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Burgstall Eltmann
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains of the wall, trenches
Place: Eltmann -Etlmann City Forest
Geographical location 49 ° 58 '3.4 "  N , 10 ° 40' 10.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '3.4 "  N , 10 ° 40' 10.2"  E
Height: 330  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Eltmann (Bavaria)
Burgstall Eltmann

The Burgstall Eltmann is next to the almost completely demolished Wallburg the second castle complex in the municipality of Eltmann. The Outbound medieval hilltop castle is located approximately 2520 meters west-southwest of the Catholic parish church of St. Michael and St. John the Baptist in the city Eltmann, a modern district of the municipality of the same name Eltmann in the district of Haßberge in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this hilltop castle on the northern foothills of the Steigerwald , it is roughly dated to medieval times. From the complex only several ditches and ramparts, as well as a few remains of the surrounding wall of the core castle have survived. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-6-6029-0004: "Medieval Castle Stables".

description

The three-part castle site is located in the Eltmann city forest at 330  m above sea level. NN height, and thus around 80  meters above the valley floor, on a long mountain tongue extending to the northeast. The Burgstall is secured in the northwest by the steep slope of the site into the valley of the Altengrundbach, in the southeast also by a steep slope into the valley of the Lochbach . The mountain peak falls a little less steeply into the gusset of the confluence of the two stream valleys. All in all, the castle site was naturally very well protected against approach, only the south-western narrow side of the castle, where the foreground as a ridge slightly up to a small woodless plateau at 415  m above sea level. NN high Kohlberg rises, had to be secured.

The classic flat promontory castle lying is divided into three areas in two secured by simple section fixings forecourts and in the more fortified main castle on the mountaintop.

The first line of fortifications is about 180 meters in front of the mountain peak, here a wall-ditch train runs across the ridge. This wall is still seven meters wide and one and a half meters high. A trench one and a half meters deep and five meters wide was laid before him. Behind this line of fortifications is the outer bailey, 20 meters wide and 40 meters long. The inner outer bailey is only separated from the outer one by a five meter wide and 2.5 meter deep ditch that also runs across the ridge. The area of ​​the inner outer bailey measures around 20 × 30 meters.

The main castle, which is fortified all around, is separated on its southwest side from the inner outer bailey by a five meter wide and three meter deep ditch. At both ends of the trench at the edge of the terrain, mounds of overburden from the trench can still be seen. This trench then extends around the entire core of the castle as a three meter wide and one meter deep slope. On its southeast side, however, this ditch has been almost completely filled in by road construction. At the top of the mountain or the north-eastern narrow side of the main castle, the ditch is also preceded by a four-meter-wide and one-and-a-half meter high wall. This wall merges on the northwest side into the outer wall formed by the slope ditch, in the southeast the continuation of the rampart through the forest path is unclear. The inner castle, sloping slightly towards the mountain peak, measured 35 × 60 meters.

The only traces of construction are in the northeast half of the core castle, here remains of the circular walls have been preserved.

literature

  • 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.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 91.
  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Hrsg.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, p. 187.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Eltmann (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 146 kB)
  3. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Franconia , p. 91