Burgstall Hirschstein (Fürstenzell)

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Hirschstein Castle Stables
Creation time : High to late Middle Ages
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, Halsgraben
Place: Fürstenzell - Irsham
Geographical location 48 ° 31 '49.1 "  N , 13 ° 20' 13.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '49.1 "  N , 13 ° 20' 13.4"  E
Height: 390  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Hirschstein (Bavaria)
Hirschstein Castle Stables

The Hirschstein castle stables are a long gone high to late medieval hill castle at 390  m above sea level. NN about 200 meters northeast of Irsham , a district of the municipality of Fürstenzell in the district of Passau in Bavaria .

history

Little is known about the small and insignificant Hirschstein Castle, it probably consisted mainly of a permanent house . At the beginning of the 14th century it was owned by the Lower Austrian knight family Hader or von Haderstein, which can be traced back to 1275. In 1367 a Zacharias Hader was mentioned, he succeeded his uncle Walchun as the owner of the noble seat and the associated Hofmark . Zacharias was a ministerial of the bishopric of Passau and thus a servant of Bishop Albert III. of angle .

Hirschstein Castle probably served as a small hunting lodge , because Zacharias possessed the hunting rights in this area, it was given to him by the Lower Bavarian Duke Stephan II .

The castle was razed in 1384 and the building material was used for the construction of the nearby Fürstenzell monastery .

On the grounds of the former castle was founded in 2002 by a probe-goers of the plate skirt Zacharias Haderer found. This armor is attributed to the knight Zacharias, but this cannot be proven. It is now in the Bavarian Army Museum .

The site is now protected as a ground monument number D-2-7446-0101: High to late medieval mansion "Burgstall Hirschstein" .

description

The castle site, which is counted as a single- storey residence , is located on a wooded spur facing north-northwest, which towers above the valley of the Gurlarner Bach by a few meters. The south side of the castle site, where the terrain spur merges into a moderately rising plateau, was secured by a neck ditch up to five meters deep and 15 meters wide . This ditch runs from the western slope of the spur in an easterly direction and turns after 30 meters to the northeast, where it, less pronounced, runs down the only slightly sloping northeast slope.

The trapezoidal inner surface of the system has a maximum length of 40 meters, its eastern half drops off considerably. On the south side there is a one-meter-high rim wall as additional protection immediately behind the inner edge of the trench. To the north-north-west of the inner surface there is a smaller plateau a few meters lower in front of it.

The northern area of ​​the former castle complex, the underground of which consists of granite and is covered by loess , as well as the lower plateau show faults that probably originate from earlier excavations .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Source up to this point: Michael Weithmann: Castles and Palaces in Lower Bavaria - Guide to castles and palaces in the Bavarian Forest, between the Danube, Isar and the lower Inn Valley , p. 203
  3. ↑ Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 241
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Fürstenzell (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 145 kB)
  5. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  6. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 241