Burgstall Haidstein

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Burgstall Haidstein
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Chamerau - leather thorn
Geographical location 49 ° 12 '57.2 "  N , 12 ° 48' 23.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '57.2 "  N , 12 ° 48' 23.7"  E
Height: 750.2  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Haidstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Haidstein
The chapel was inaugurated in honor of the Mother of God of Mount Carmel and St. Bishop Ulrich zu Augsburg and is in the immediate vicinity of the summit

The Postal Haidstein is an Outbound hilltop castle in the municipality Chamerau in Oberpfälzer district of Cham in Bavaria . It is located at 750.2  m above sea level. NHN high summit of Haidstein in the area of ​​the pilgrimage church of Sankt Ulrich .

history

The castle on the Haidstein, mentioned around 1200, was probably built in the 12th century by a Hatto von Haitstein, who belonged to the Runtinger family (Roumptinger) with his seat at Runding Castle . The Runtinger were simple servants of the Margraves of Cham-Vohburg . The Chamerauers , who had their headquarters at Chamerau Castle , moved their headquarters to the nearby strategically more favorable Haidstein at an early stage and had Chamerau administered by carers . The castle consisted of the main castle with keep and residential building and a chapel, which was occupied from 1366, the inner bailey with cistern and the spacious outer bailey. The circular wall of the inner bailey was later supplemented by two round / semicircular towers.

1467 to 1468 the castle of Duke Albrecht IX. have been destroyed. Against it speaks that an Ulrich VI. was still detectable at the castle until 1486. In any case, the castle was quickly abandoned and was in ruins in the mid-16th century. The chapel was restored in 1656/57 and expanded in 1718/19. It has a rare Romanesque crucifix and late Gothic and Baroque figures. In the 19th century, extensive remains of the keep and the gate of the outer outer bailey could still be seen. Today nothing remains of the castle complex itself, traces of the former complex can still be seen in the ground. The castle site is now a ground monument .

The Haidstein is the starting point for several related families, including the von Sparneck family , who settled as ministerials in what is now Upper Franconia and southern Thuringia.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 172-176
  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 87

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