Burgstall Erbshausen

Burgstall Erbshausen
The tower hill and the draining neck ditch from the south
Alternative name (s):	Castle Hill
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, one-storey residence
Conservation status:	Castle stable, castle hill, moat
Place:	Hausen near Würzburg -Unterhof-Corridor "Castle Hill"
Geographical location	49 ° 54 '2.4 "  N , 10 ° 1' 23.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '2.4 "  N , 10 ° 1' 23.1"  E
Height:	290  m above sea level NHN

Identification of the still recognizable parts of the castle when looking from the north-northwest

The Burgstall Erbshausen is an abandoned castle about 1650 meters southeast of the church in Erbshausen in the corridor Schlosshügel, 150 meters northeast of the Unterhof, a district of the municipality of Hausen near Würzburg in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg in Bavaria . The castle complex is roughly dated as medieval .

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Panorama of the tower hill with the neck ditch

The former castle complex was located about 250 meters south-southeast of the confluence of the Fullenbach and the Erbshausener Bach to the Grundelbach on a small castle plateau surrounded by a semicircular ditch . The ditch stretches about 100 meters from the south over the east side of the castle site to the north, and at its deepest point is still 17 meters wide and up to four meters deep. In the south and north, the Halsgraben runs freely into the Grundelbach valley, which is two to three meters lower. The tower hill itself, on its north side, drops three meters moderately steeply to a several meters wide berm , which can also be interpreted as a bailey .

The castle site, the inner area of ​​which is only slightly higher than the area in front of it, and is therefore one of the mansions at ground level , has a diameter of 43 meters. With its location on a spur of the hill sloping down to the valley of the Erbshausener Bach and its extensive moat, it has the shape of a tower hill castle (moth).

The Burgstall is protected as a ground monument number D-6-6026-0148: "Medieval ground-level residence".

• Castle stable pictures
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  Left of the center of the picture the neck ditch running into the valley, right the outer bailey area; in the back right the stepped ascent to the tower hill

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  The tower hill from the exposed little terrace in the south

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  In a south-westerly direction over the neck ditch that leads into a terrace with a view of the valley to Unterhof and Hilpertshausen

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  View from the north from the neck ditch to the area of ​​the outer bailey to the tower hill

literature

• Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (edit.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume VI. Lower Franconia . Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52397-X .
• 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. 187.
• Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Hrsg.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, p. 173.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Erbshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Castle Erbshausen (castle hill) in the private database "All castles".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
2. ↑ ^{a b c} List of monuments for Hausen near Würzburg (number D-6-6026-0148) (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 141 kB)
3. ^ Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz: Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt , p. 173