Burgstall high rocks

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Burgstall high rocks
Creation time : probably 12th or early 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Possibly the Wittelsbach ministerial seat
Place: Beratzhausen - "high rocks"
Geographical location 49 ° 6 '11.2 "  N , 11 ° 48' 32.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '11.2 "  N , 11 ° 48' 32.5"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Hohe Felsen (Bavaria)
Burgstall high rocks

The Postal High rocks is an Outbound Spur castle on the "High Rock" overlooking the valley of the Black Laber . The castle site is about 780 meters north of the Beratzhausen market in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle, and there are currently no findings that could date the complex. It is roughly dated to the medieval period. Has received from the plant only a moat and two upstream section trenches .

history

No historical information is known about this small castle complex; from a typological point of view, it was probably built during the 12th or early 13th century. Since medieval written sources are also missing, the builders and owners of the castle are also unknown. Possibly the local nobility of the nearby Beratzhausen mentioned in 866 comes into question. Between around 1130 and 1140, a Livpolt de Berharteshusen was named when he entered the monasteryChecking and gave it a property near Mendorf. Furthermore, between 1197 and 1200 an Alheit de Pernhartshusen and in 1223 a Gotpolt de Pernhartshusen were mentioned, both of which gave the monastery of Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg a serf or property. Another noble family named after Beratzhausen were the ministerials of Parsberg who served the Wittelsbach dukes . The later Eichstätter Bishop Friedrich II. Von Parsberg was designated as magister Fridericus de Bernhardeshusen from 1229 , and after his death around 1260 as Fridericus episcopus de Perharteshusen .

Since the castle complex does not appear in either early modern or late medieval records, it is likely to have been abandoned early on. Ehrenfels Castle , which was built before 1256 and is only 1.7 kilometers to the west-southwest, probably contributed to this, as the Ehrenfels castle nobility also served the Regensburg bishopric and the Bavarian dukes. In addition, the castle on the Hohe Felsen could also have served as a fortified observation and control post for the Ehrenfelsers.

On the Postal comprises an information panel towards the Regensburg Burgsteige, these issues trails between 44 castles, ruins and Burg stables each other, and can be done with a castle guide. Today the Burgstall is registered as a floor monument D-3-6836-0001 "Medieval Burgstall" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

The castle site is 460  m above sea level. NN on a rock spur protruding from a plateau to the west into the valley of the Schwarzen Laber . This spur is limited to the north and south by steep slopes, its top drops 35  meters vertically down to the valley floor. The east side of the castle grounds merges into a gently sloping plateau.

The castle complex was once divided into three areas, the core castle at the tip of the spur on a cliff, and two narrow bailey or fortifications to the east in front of it .

The inner bailey is protected on three sides by the steep vertical drop of the cliff, to the east to the inner outer bailey it was delimited by a neck ditch up to seven meters deep . The roughly square surface of the uneven dome measured around 18 by 17 meters, traces of construction such as rising masonry have no longer been preserved above ground. The inner bailey is only about eleven meters wide and 20 meters long. It is separated from the outer outer bailey by a section trench five meters deep. The area of ​​the outer outer bailey is 8 by 50 meters, and it is also cut off from the plateau by an outer section trench two meters deep and 50 meters long . In a description from 1954 by F. Gries from the Natural History Society of Nuremberg , remnants of walls, probably collapsed walls, were still visible on the inside of the two section trenches. Today these are hardly recognizable.

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate. The early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area (= Regensburg Studies and Sources on Cultural History , Volume 5). Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, pp. 109–113, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 (Dissertation University of Regensburg 1993, under the title: The early and high medieval castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate , 471 pages).
  • Sixtus Lampl: Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological monuments , Volume III: Upper Palatinate . Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 , p. 206.
  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate (= material booklets on Bavarian prehistory , series B, volume 3). Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 238.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ Source history: Andreas Boos: Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - The early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area , p. 109 f.
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Beratzhausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 142 kB)
  5. ↑ Source description: Andreas Boos: Castles in the South of the Upper Palatinate - The early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area , p. 109 and Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 238