Burgstall Hohe Reuth

Burgstall Hohe Reuth
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Place:	Rugendorf - Losau
Geographical location	50 ° 13 '15.8 "  N , 11 ° 27' 5.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '15.8 "  N , 11 ° 27' 5.6"  E
Height:	520  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Hohe Reuth is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle just above the valley of the millrace, approximately 550 meters north-northeast of the center of the local part Losau the community Rugendorf in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach in Bavaria , Germany .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this spur castle , it is roughly dated as medieval , and in the tradition only appears in a territorial map from around 1700. The main thing that has survived from the complex on a slope spur is a ditch with an edge wall. The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5734-0019: "Medieval castle stables".

description

The wooded castle site is around 520  m above sea level. NHN height on a slope spur facing west-northwest in the lower third of the steeply sloping escarpment of the Franconian Forest . The tip of the spur is bounded by the valley of the Mühlgraben, which is about 60  meters lower. The south-south-west, west-north-west and north-north-east sides drop very steeply and were therefore very well protected by nature. The only endangered side of the complex was the east-south-east narrow side, where the fore area was moderately steep up to a height of 680  m above sea level. NN rises and the castle so inflated. For protection, a trench three meters deep and around ten meters wide was dug out of the rock as an obstacle to the approach. The walls of the trench are almost vertical, its bottom and the area in front of it are filled or disturbed by a modern forest path. On the side of the moat of the 28 × 20 meter castle surface there is a 1.3 meter high rampart measured from the inner surface, the ends of which are slightly indented. The remaining sides of the castle area, which sloped slightly towards the tip of the spur, were unpaved, they only protected an artificially steep slope and the steep terrain interspersed with rocky cliffs. On the partly rocky surface of the Burgplatz there are no more remains of walls or other traces of building. As an additional attachment, an outer wall is attached to the ends of the outer slope of the trench, but this has been destroyed in the area of ​​the forest road. This rampart first stretches diagonally down the respective mountain slopes and then moves around the north-northeast and south-southwest side of the mountain spur. The two ramparts, which at the same time form a flattened inner ditch, each merge into a berm and end at a rock break in the west-northwest. The width of the ring wall is up to four meters, its height only about 0.75 meters.

literature

• Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach . Published by the district of Kulmbach, Neudrossenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033354-5 , pp. 192 and 216.
• Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 , p. 275 .
• Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Laßleben , Kallmünz 1955, p. 151.

Web links

• Entry on Hohe Reuth in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 151
3. ↑ List of monuments for Rugendorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)
4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas