Burgstall Graefenberg

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Burgstall Graefenberg
Remnants of the wall

Remnants of the wall

Alternative name (s): Castle national honor
Creation time : Mid 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the wall
Standing position : Count
Place: Hösbach - Rottenberg - " Graefenberg "
Geographical location 50 ° 1 '55.9 "  N , 9 ° 13' 50.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '55.9 "  N , 9 ° 13' 50.9"  E
Height: 360  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Graefenberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Graefenberg

The Postal Gräfenberg , also castle country's honor called, is an Outbound hilltop castle at 360  m above sea level. NN on the Graefenberg near Rottenberg , a district of the market town of Hösbach in the district of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably built in the middle of the 13th century on and next to a rampart from the Latène period , probably after the Klosterberg castle opposite . Archaeological studies from 2007 showed that it goes back to an early medieval refuge. There is no firm documentary evidence of who founded the castle or who it belonged to.

As early as 1261 the castle was destroyed again in the course of a conflict between the Counts of Rieneck and Kurmainz . In the 20th century, the castle was demolished by a quarry except for a few remains of the wall.

description

The castle had a massive curtain wall that ran around the entire complex and thus protected the residents. The facility was laid out strictly rectangular and was 22 m wide. The approximately two meters thick and probably more than ten meters high shield wall with wooden battlements and tiled roof was integrated into the early medieval ring wall . The buildings in the courtyard were made of stone and wood. The Aschaf valley could be overlooked from the then unwooded summit . It is believed that the complex was more representative than fortified.

In 1904 the Aschaffenburg pharmacist Deinlein carried out the first excavations on the Graefenberg. Today there are wall sections of a rectangular building complex, a 5 meter long and 1.80 meter wide longitudinal wall, a 4 meter long and 0.40 meter wide transverse wall (south-east corner) that abuts a wall that has not yet been exposed. The beginning of a vault is recognizable, a circular masonry that indicates a cistern or a castle dungeon.

The secret of the Graefenberg

Employees of the sandstone quarry directly below the castle complex report that they found an inscription plaque and identified the coat of arms of the Counts of Rieneck on it. A few days after the alleged find, however, according to the workers, it was buried by a landslide and could therefore not be confirmed or deciphered. This was also reported in a magazine article by Observer am Main from 1905, but the description is doubted. Even after intensive excavation work in 2007, the tablet could not be found. Rather, it is assumed that this, if it existed, was sold by the stone crushers.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gräfenberg Rottenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Graefenberg - research history at spessartprojekt.de
  2. ↑ Information board on site