Burgstall Großkonreuth

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Burgstall Großkonreuth
Castle type : Tower Hill Castle
Conservation status: Overbuilding by rectory
Place: Großkonreuth district of the Mähring community
Geographical location 49 ° 53 '23.7 "  N , 12 ° 25' 47.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '23.7 "  N , 12 ° 25' 47.7"  E
Height: 559  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Großkonreuth (Bavaria)
Burgstall Großkonreuth

The Burgstall Großkonreuth is believed to be in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Mähring in the Tirschenreuth district in Bavaria .

history

The place Großkonreuth is first mentioned in 1135. At that time, Margrave Diepold III confirmed . his previous donations to the Reichenbach monastery and also mentions … Chunrut in the Egere region . This was previously a fiefdom of the Diepolding Ministerial Gottfried von Wetterfeld . Großkonreuth belonged to the Höglstein (Hohenstein) provost, which was taken under protection by Emperor Friedrich I. in 1182 . Chunreut is also mentioned among the affiliations of Höglstein . Around 1194, a local nobleman Waltherus villicus de Kunirute is mentioned in a certificate fromrichbach, in 1205 he appears with his son as Waltherus de Counrieute et filius suus henricus . A Theodericus officialis de Kunhreuth is mentioned as the last witness in a sale by the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg . The place appears only then again in 1442 in a deed of sale of the Provost Hohenstein up when he carried the after the devastation Hussite Wars to the monastery Waldsassen is sold.

description

It is believed that the medieval tower of St. John's Church (around 1200) is the only remaining part of the former castle. Possibly the place of the castle was built over by the construction of a new rectory (Großkonreuth 16). The foundations of a curtain wall are said to have been visible until the middle of the 19th century .

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder: The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . From the series: Works on the Archeology of Southern Germany, Volume 28 . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 , pp. 125–127.