Hofberg Castle Stable

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Hofberg Castle Stable
Burgstall Hofberg from the east

Burgstall Hofberg from the east

Alternative name (s): Burgstall Old Church
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Castle stable with moat
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Velburg - Oberwiesenacker
Geographical location 49 ° 17 '40.6 "  N , 11 ° 37' 2.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '40.6 "  N , 11 ° 37' 2.7"  E
Height: 510  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Hofberg (Bavaria)
Hofberg Castle Stable

The Burgstall Hofberg , also called Burgstall Alte Kirche , because a small chapel was located there until the 19th century , is located in the Oberwiesenacker district of the Upper Palatinate town of Velburg in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate . The Outbound medieval lowland castle is located approximately 1100 m north-northwest of the parish church of St. Wilibald of Oberwiesenacker on the Hofberg.

description

The Hofberg is a hill that is steep on all sides in the valley of the Schwarzen Laber, which stretches north from Unterwiesenacker . In the wasteland , a mighty right-angled wall 19 m wide and up to 8.5 m high has been preserved; the wall has legs 40 and 30 m long. The plateau des Burgstalles ( old church ) is separated from the plowed southern part of the Hofberg by a leveled double ditch . The inner area is 150 × 75 m, the main castle cone approx. 50 × 20 m. On the west side of the southern part there are remains of an edge wall. Part of the facility documented in the mid-1950s has fallen victim to intensive agricultural use in the last few decades, and the neck ditch has been largely filled with rubble.

Burgstall Hofberg in Oberwiesenacker after Armin Stroh

A mesolithic flint tip and two probably also mesolithic flint scrapers were found in the area of ​​the Hofberg castle stable . In the forecastle of the castle Hofberg a were used as surface finds early medieval fire steel (. Century. 10 9-), a fragment of a band-shaped horseshoe without studs, iron arrowheads with spout and laterally compressed rhombic sheet and waves Bandkeramik , starting with the 9th century. And ending in the 14th century, discovered.

history

The castle was originally the seat of the Lords of Wiesenacker, who were ministerials for the Counts of Kastl-Habsberg . They are documented between 1159 and 1400. As the first member of the family known by name , a noble folk de Wesenaer appears in a chancellery certificate dated March 29, 1159, which was issued in Vienna by Heinrich Jasormigtott . Via the Kastl monastery, the meadow fields seem to have come under the ministry of the Counts of Hirschberg . Vlrich de Wesenacher attests to a contract between Count Gebhard VII von Hirschberg and Duke Ludwig of Bavaria as a Hirschberg servant in 1293 . Ulrich von Wesenacker is named as a Hirschberg vassal when he and his relative Seyfried Schweppermann donated a property in Nattershofen to the Katharinenhospital in Regensburg in 1295 . Friedrich von Wesenacker, who was also involved, was probably a son of the donor. In 1303 a Peter von Wiesenacker donated a farm in Götzendorf back to the Kastl monastery. Then Walter von Wiesenacker (1329) is named, then Konrad the Wesenachrär (1343), the imperial "serf" Rüdger von Wiesenacker (1346), furthermore an Ulrich von Wiesenacker (1348) and again a Peter von Wiesenacker with his son Georg (1393). An Albrecht Walther Wiesenacker (1420) is said to have been killed in a duel; a memorial column was allegedly erected for him in Raitenbuch (this interpretation is controversial). After 1393 the traces of this noble family and with them also those of their castle complex are lost.

Presumably in the middle of the 16th century a church was built in place of the castle on the Hofberg, which was abolished in 1552 together with the Pielenhofen monastery in the course of the introduction of the Reformation in Wiesenacker by the elector Ottheinrich . This church was dedicated to St. George . In 1627 a visitation report about the condition of the churches in this region states that the entablature of the Church of St. Georg in Unterwiesenacker had been sold and drunk by the carer . It is unclear whether this church was once built as a castle chapel or only after the castle was abandoned. In 1680/82 the site of the former castle and most of the Hofberg are owned by the farmer Hans Vogl from Unterwiesenacker, at that time the church seems to have been completely gone.

literature

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Hofberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Koch, Silvia Codreanu-Windauer, Susanne Herramhof: Archaeological excavations and finds in the Upper Palatinate 1984–1986. Pp. 269 and 302, accessed April 13, 2020.
  2. ^ The story of Oberwiesenacker on the Velburg homepage, accessed on April 13, 2020.