Burgstall Hirschstein (Hohenfels)

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Hirschstein Castle Stables
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Hohenfels - Großbissendorf - "Hirschstein"
Geographical location 49 ° 13 '54.4 "  N , 11 ° 48' 40.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '54.4 "  N , 11 ° 48' 40.8"  E
Height: 539.8  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Hirschstein (Bavaria)
Hirschstein Castle Stables

The Burgstall Hirschstein is an abandoned medieval hilltop castle on the "Hirschstein" about 1775 to 1800 meters north-northwest of Großbissendorf , a district of the Hohenfels community in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria . Today it is located within the Hohenfels training area and is therefore rarely visited. No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle. Previously, the site served as a prehistoric hilltop settlement, prehistoric ceramic fragments were made there as reading finds , they are now in the Amberg Museum. Only an oval ring wall has survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6736-0049: Burgstall, prehistoric hilltop settlement .

description

The castle site is on the top of the Hirschstein, a 539.8  m above sea level. NN Hohen and to the north as well as to the south steeply sloping mountain. Only in the south-east and in the north-west are two lower mountain saddles , followed by other mountains. The summit of the Hirschstein is crowned by a steep rock slab, seven meters high and about 19 by 10 meters. Their surface is very flat. An oval ring wall stretches around this rock slab, which has a diameter of 52 meters in east-west direction and 34 meters in north-south direction. There is a pincer gate in its northeast corner . The wall is 1 to 1.5 meters high, measured from the inside and 2.5 meters high from the outside and one meter wide on its crown, and contains a dry stone wall . In the southern part of the interior of the fortification, the ring wall is connected to the rock slab with a 0.5 meter high wall.

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  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 220
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Hohenfels (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 150 kB)
  4. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 220