Burgstall Freudeneck

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Burgstall Freudeneck
Remains of the ramparts (July 2014)

Remains of the ramparts (July 2014)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Rattelsdorf -Daschendorfer Forest- "Greinberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '2 "  N , 10 ° 51' 39.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '2 "  N , 10 ° 51' 39.1"  E
Height: 356  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Freudeneck (Bavaria)
Burgstall Freudeneck
Notice board at the Burgstall

The Postal Freudeneck is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the Greinberg, also called Kraiberg, within the boundaries of the municipality Dasch Forst Rattelsdorf in the district of Bamberg in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this spur castle ; it is roughly dated to medieval times. Only a moat and the remains of a wall have survived from the complex; the former castle is one of the scenes of the legend of the Freudeneck dwarf . The Burgstall is registered as a ground monument D-4-5931-0050 "Burgstall of the Middle Ages" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

History and description

Nothing is known about the history of this medieval castle complex. Possibly it served, like the small tower hill castle Helfenroth, which is only 1250 meters northeast, the administration of the imperial game ban from Zeilberg , of which only the tower hill castle hill has survived . The castle site was first mentioned in 1685 and again in 1696 by the Baunach Hunting Commission.

The oval, 80 × 70 meter measuring castle site is located at 356  m above sea level. NHN height on a north-northeast facing spur of the Greinberg. The north and east sides of the crest drop steeply. In the west and south, the area in front of the former castle is relatively flat, it only drops a few meters in altitude , after which it rises after a saddle to the summit of the mountain. A sandstone wall with a trench in front was built there to protect the complex.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , p. 75.
  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .

Web links

  • Entry on Freudeneck in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas Atlas
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Rattelsdorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 156 kB)
  4. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 75