Burgstall Gutenfels

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Burgstall Gutenfels
Burgstall Gutenfels - Halsgraben and main castle, view to the south

Burgstall Gutenfels - Halsgraben and main castle, view to the south

Creation time : High Middle Ages
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, ramparts and moats preserved
Construction: Small ashlar masonry
Place: Untermerzbach - book corridor "Lichtensteiner Point"
Geographical location 50 ° 8 '10.3 "  N , 10 ° 48' 54"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '10.3 "  N , 10 ° 48' 54"  E
Height: 360  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Gutenfels (Bavaria)
Burgstall Gutenfels

The Postal Gutenfels is an Outbound high medieval hilltop castle on 360  m above sea level. NN between the Untermerzbacher districts of Buch and Wüstenwelsberg in the Haßberge district in Lower Franconia . The neck moat and small remains of the wall have survived from the high medieval castle complex.

history

Neck ditch and main castle to the north

The small castle complex was associated with the families of Rotenhan or Lichtenstein after it was "rediscovered" by the former district home keeper H. Maurer . The lay historian Wolfram Berninger interpreted the castle site in 1996 as the Gutenfels castle that Hermann von Arnstein sold to the Banz monastery in 1225 together with other properties . The fortress seems to have fallen into disrepair at that time (... item area, in qua erectum fuerat castrum gvtenfels).

In 2003 the medieval archaeologist Joachim Zeune agreed with Berninger's opinion (see literature). The few remains of the wall made of small, high medieval "hand blocks" make this interpretation entirely plausible. However, a nearby rock group on the outskirts of Buch is sometimes viewed as another castle site. Some historians also tried to locate Gutenfels Castle on the " Gottesacker " near Fierst .

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Burgstall had to serve as a quarry that left unmistakable traces. This makes a reconstruction of the original development much more difficult.

description

Similar to the Felsburg stalls Teufelsstein and Rotenhan , a free-standing rock group was selected for the castle construction. All three neighboring castles are located on the slope, which is unfavorable from a defense point of view, so they are raised by the rising terrain and separated from the mountain by a ditch .

The semicircular moat of the alleged Gutenfels Castle on the west side of the castle site is around 120 meters long, 20 meters wide and up to eight meters deep. At the edge of the fissured, 50 by 50 meter large castle plateau, a low rubble wall of the curtain wall follows the course of the moat. The old castle access on the south side was extended to a transport ramp while the quarry was in operation. The location of the certainly existing bailey is unclear unique terrain tracks have not survived.

The mentioned, on average 30 × 40 centimeters large, sandstone hand blocks testify to the stone interior construction. On the upper side, the typical wolf hole suggests a date before 1200. Later, the bricks were usually moved with pliers .

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval castle stable under monument number D 6-5830-0013.

literature

  • Joachim Zeune: Castles in the Eberner Land, part 2 . (Eberner Heimatblätter, 9). Boars 2003.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 94.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Gutenfels  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry