Burgstall Heunenhügel

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Burgstall Heunenhügel
The spur of the castle stable

The spur of the castle stable

Alternative name (s): Heuneburg, formerly incorrectly Alteburg
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, castle hill, neck moat
Standing position : unknown
Place: Klingenberg am Main
Geographical location 49 ° 46 '58.4 "  N , 9 ° 11' 26.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '58.4 "  N , 9 ° 11' 26.9"  E
Height: 270  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Heunenhügel (Bavaria)
Burgstall Heunenhügel

The Tower Hill Heunenhügel even Heuneburg , formerly assigned to falsely Altepurg called, is a Outbound hilltop castle about 500 meters east of the Clingenburg in Klingenberg am Main in Lower Franconia district of Miltenberg in Bavaria .

location

The castle was located on a sloping 270  m above sea level. NN high spur , which is limited by the sharp cuts in the notched valleys of the Seltenbach Gorge and the Heunenschlucht . The castle site also got its name from this: Heunenhügel . It lies below the state road leading from Klingenberg to Schmachtenberg .

history

The Burgstall is partly seen as the predecessor of the Clingenburg. Almost nothing is known about the castle and its history. It is believed that it is mentioned in a document of the brothers Gottfried and Philipp von Bickenbach from 1295, which deals with the tithe , i.e. taxes, in " the Long Thale ", which is " from the old old castle (antiquo castro) towards ash ”. The knowledge of the location of the castle is corroborated by the Spessart map from 1562/1594 by Paul Pfinzing , in which a castle is shown at the merging of the two blades and is called Altepurg .

View from the Heunenschlucht, the spur on the right

Since the castle was on the narrow spur in the Klingenberger Schlucht (confluence of the Heunenschlucht and the Seltenbachschlucht), it could only have been a very small complex due to the lack of space; the castle probably only consisted of a residential tower . The tower hill and remains of the neck ditch are still preserved from the former castle complex . Geodata suggest two remains of buildings at the southern end near the neck ditch, this oval area is almost flat. A tower could have a maximum diameter of 10 meters. Remnants of stone are said to have stood in this area up to the present day. An archaeological investigation of the Heunenhügel has not yet been carried out.

Wolfgang Hartmann , volunteer as a district home keeper and district archivist in the Miltenberg district and in the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Mömlingen e. V. active, however, is critical of an assignment to the Clingenburg and places the Altepurg in the area of ​​the former Klingenberg Tonwerke. He sees the Heunenhügel as a different complex.

In addition to the Hainburg (also called Heinburg , and assigned to today's " Alte Schanze ") south of the Clingenburg, a double complex, consisting of a probably early medieval, larger hill fort with several walls and an inner smaller, almost square, high medieval complex in which the modern lookout tower is located, he suspects another castle stable in the "Kühruh" forest department .

The ground monument is qualified under the number D-6-6221-0041 as a medieval tower hill "Heunenhügel" . The synonym hill only stands for the location. The small castle complex was not built as a moth.

literature

  • 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. 137.
  • Chronicle of the city of Klingenberg am Main , Volume I, Klingenberg am Main 1994, p. 58 f.
  • Thomas Steinmetz: The castle group of Klingenberg am Main . In: Aschaffenburger Jahrbuch , Volume 33, Ed .: Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg eV, Aschaffenburg 2019, pp. 95-108

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle of the City of Klingenberg am Main , Klingenberg am Main 1994, p. 58
  2. ↑ Small castles in the Miltenberg district at geschichte-untermain.de
  3. History portal Bayerischer Untermain - contact person
  4. Riddle: Where was the first Clingenburg? Searching for clues at the old Tonwerk in Main-Echo on 23 August 2014
  5. ^ Small castles - castle stables in the Miltenberg district at www.geschichte-untermain.de