Burgstall Gersdorf

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Burgstall Gersdorf
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Left, dig received
Place: Nennslingen - Gersdorf
Geographical location 49 ° 1 '53.3 "  N , 11 ° 9' 32.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '53.3 "  N , 11 ° 9' 32.9"  E
Height: 525.8  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Gersdorf (Bavaria)
Burgstall Gersdorf

The Postal Gersdorf is an Outbound probably high medieval Spur castle that once located on a outcrop , just east of Gersdorf rose. The castle site is located about 70 meters east-southeast of the Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus in Gersdorf, a district of the Markt Nennslingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Bavaria , Germany . Today a moat is still preserved from the object protected as ground monument number D-5-6932-0142: "Medieval Castle Stables" . Historical information on this attachment are not known, but the castle was probably the seat of Gersdorfer local nobility, for the 11th and 12th century in documents is occupied. The place was called “Burckstal” on a map from around 1600.

description

The Burgstall is located 525.8  m above sea level. NN height on a terrain spur directed to the west-northwest, which is bordered to the south and west by the valley of the Anlauter and north by a dry valley. On the east-south-east side, the area of ​​the Burgstall merges into a slightly elevated Jura plateau, on which the airfield for ultralight aircraft follows.

The castle site consists of a 25 × 20 meter large, trapezoidal plateau, on the southern and eastern edges of which you can still see wall remains. The foundation walls of a building were discovered on this plateau in 1961 during an unauthorized excavation. Towards the plateau, this castle plateau is secured by a slightly outwardly curved ditch, which reaches a maximum depth of around four meters towards the plateau and 2.5 meters towards the castle plateau. On the north as well as on the south side of the castle plateau, another ditch branches off from this ditch and ends at the tip of the spur. On the outside of these two trenches, there are also short ramparts. The terrain edges of the spur have probably been artificially steepened.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 391 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gotthard Kießling: Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, p. 391
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Nennslingen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 447 kB)
  3. ↑ Gotthard Kießling: Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, p. 391
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  5. ↑ Gotthard Kießling: Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, p. 391