Burgstall Neudürrlas

Burgstall Neudürrlas
Access via the outer trench to the plateau of the plant
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Thierstein -Neudürrlas
Geographical location	50 ° 5 '58.1 "  N , 12 ° 7' 55.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '58.1 "  N , 12 ° 7' 55.2"  E
Height:	570  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Neudürrlas is an abandoned tower hill castle (Motte) near Neudürrlas , today incorporated into Thierstein in the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in Bavaria .

Location and history

South of the village of Neudürrlas on the way to Altdürrlas is the entrance to a facility that is not specified in historical sources and is attributed to the 12th century. Access is via a horseshoe-shaped trench that surrounds the inner plateau. At the other end, the area is protected by a steep slope. Peat stores , which have since been dismantled , provided further natural protection. The ditch increased in height as a result of embankments. Room-sized depressions indicate adjoining buildings inside. The name of the facility suggests the presence of a tower. The entire Burgstall is wooded today.

The local local researcher Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht did not describe the system in more detail; his contemporary Johann Christoph Stierlein sketched and measured it. Stierlein called the complex “Schloss Foerles” and sketched it in the extent that is still preserved today. He called the adjacent road, which was wooded on both sides at the time, as the connecting road between Arzberg and Selb .

Dieter Arzberger refers to the documentary mention in the 15th century and draws attention to the fact that the common name for the facility, Schwedenschanze, refers to events there during the Thirty Years' War . However, the vernacular has mixed numerous fortifications out of ignorance a legendary connection with the Thirty Years War. Today's access is marked with a sign pointing to the Schwedenschanze. (See also: List of German hill-towers ).

Ceramic finds document the use of the facility from the 12th to the beginning of the 14th century. In the land register of Wunsiedel 1499 the castle stable is referred to as "Turnleins" and is considered a former checkpoint on an important trade route for ore and charcoal transports. In 1585 the residents of Thiersheim asked to be allowed to demolish stones for the construction of the church tower.

literature

• Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . In: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , VIII. Administrative Region Upper Franconia, Volume 1 . Munich 1954, ISBN 3-486-41941-2 , pp. 202-204.
• Hans Vollet, Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . 1987.
• Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 164.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Singer : The early medieval tower hill at Neudürrlas . In: Der Siebenstern 1983. pp. 102-105.
• Harald Stark : Castle and Office Thierstein . In: Selber Hefte , Volume 12. Selb 1993. ISBN 3-927313-07-6 . P. 9.70.
• Kellermann: Castle walls in the Fichtel Mountains (...) . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . Volume 18, issue 1. Bayreuth 1890. pp. 209-213.

Web links

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

• Bavarian premiere with the BayernAtlas ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Arzberger: Lord give peace that nourishes - The Thirty Years War in the Fichtel Mountains . Part 1. Selb 2014. ISBN 978-3-927313-70-5 . P. 393.
2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Singer: The land book of the six offices of 1499 . Wunsiedel 1987. pp. 103f.
3. ↑ Stark, p. 9.