Burgstall gallows tendrils

Burgstall gallows tendrils
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, neck ditch and wall preserved
Place:	Windischeschenbach - "Galgenrangen"
Geographical location	49 ° 48 '28.8 "  N , 12 ° 9' 52.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '28.8 "  N , 12 ° 9' 52.7"  E
Height:	480  m above sea level NHN

The Postal gallows vines is a Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the eastern edge of the valley above the confluence of the Fichtelnaab and Tirschenreuther Waldnaab from which the Waldnaab arises. The castle site is located around 900 meters northeast of the Catholic parish church St. Emmeram von Windischeschenbach in the municipality of the same name in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle, it is roughly dated as medieval . Of the small castle, only the neck moat and a rampart in front have survived. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6139-0068 "Medieval Castle Stables".

description

The castle site is around 480  m above sea level. NHN height on the western steep drop of the Galgenrangen mountain spur , which extends to the north-northwest into a loop of the Tirschenreuther Waldnaab. The castle lay on a steeply sloping rocky pulpit, which is about 55  meters above the confluence of the Fichtelnaab and the Tirschenreuther Waldnaab. The west side of the complex was therefore naturally well protected, with a Jura plateau connecting to the east , so that defensive structures had to be built here to protect against an approach.

The castle grounds, which are now wooded, have a diameter of around 26 meters and the surface is covered with granite rocks. This castle area is cut off from the flat plateau in the east by a four-meter-wide neck ditch running in a semicircle . The trench stretches from the northern edge of the terrain to the southern edge, thus securing the entire east side of the facility. A three meter wide and only 0.40 meter high wall was placed in front of this trench as an additional obstacle to the approach. The jump height, i.e. the height difference between the crest of the wall and the bottom of the trench, is a maximum of 1.2 meters.

literature

• Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 232.

Web links

• Entry on gallows tendrils in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ List of monuments for Windischeschenbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 577 kB)
3. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
4. ^ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 232