Hohenbrunnen Castle Stables

Hohenbrunnen Castle Stables
Hohenbrunnen castle stables - View of the castle stables from the west
Creation time :	probably late Middle Ages
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Construction:	Quarry stone masonry
Place:	Berching -Sollngriesbach
Geographical location	49 ° 7 '30.2 "  N , 11 ° 24' 23.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '30.2 "  N , 11 ° 24' 23.1"  E
Height:	510  m above sea level NN

The presumably late medieval Hohenbrunnen castle stables are the remains of an abandoned castle that once stood on a small terrace on a steep slope of the Erasbacher Berg. The Burgstall is located west-northwest of the parish village Sollngriesbach in the municipality of Berching in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria , Germany . Of the castle, which emerged from the darkness of history in the late Middle Ages, only the impressive neck moat and a few overgrown wall remains remain.

Geographical location

The site of the former castle is located in the center of the Franconian Alb low mountain range , on a slope terrace on a very steep slope of the Erasbacher Berg that descends into a small side valley of the Kirchenbach. It is located about 1900 meters west-northwest of the Catholic Church of St. Nicholas in Sollngriesbach or 1460 meters north-northeast of the center of Jettingsdorf.

There are other former medieval castles nearby, just a few kilometers to the northwest is the Häferloch castle stables , and a little further a castle stables on the Röschberg. Another castle stable is in Burggriesbach, and to the west is the Gutser Schloss tower, north of Viehhausen.

Nearby is the beautiful limestone terrace, Hoher Brunnen .

History of the castle

Today there is no known historical information about the lost Hohenbrunnen Castle. It is not mentioned in a document, so that neither the builder nor the time of construction of the castle can be found. During the late Middle Ages, a Heinrich von Hohenbrunnen can be documented between the years 1334 and 1354 . Later, in 1419, another member of the von Hohenbrunnen family was mentioned. The name of the castle probably goes back to one of the two springs that rise up the slope in the immediate vicinity.

Today the site of the former castle is densely overgrown with forest, of which only the neck ditch, a short wall and some overgrown remains of the foundation wall are preserved. The Burgstall, which is freely accessible at all times, serves as a resting place; several benches and tables have been set up there.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as "Medieval Castle Stables Hohenbrunnen" has the monument number D-3-6834-0016.

description

Masonry remnants

The place of the abandoned hilltop castle lies on a slope terrace that protrudes from the upper third of the southern slope of a plateau sloping into a side valley of the Sulz . The south side of the castle stable drops off very steeply, the west and east side of the terrace also merge into a steep slope, so that the system was excellently protected from an attack on these three sides. The north side, on the other hand, rises only slightly at first, but then steeply to the wooded plateau. This side, which is naturally the poorest protected, had to be secured by a ditch.

The area of ​​this small, one-piece hillside castle is oval in shape with a largest diameter of about 36 meters.

The tower-like castle stable is surrounded by a 1.2 meter deep and about 3 meter wide semicircular ditch , which today is traversed by a small stream for about two thirds of its length. Both ends of the trench run out on the steeply sloping mountain slope, there is still an overburden hill, a sign of the artificial origin of the trench, to be seen. The western overburden mound was transformed by the stream into a large calcareous terrace with many small basins.

The castle hill rising from the moat about 2.5 meters high has an oval ground plan with a diameter of about 30 meters. In the north-eastern part of the hill there is a large, rectangular depression that marks the location of a former building. Overgrown foundation walls can still be seen on the west and east sides of the depression, while quarry stone masonry is exposed on the north side . The rest of the castle area, which slopes down towards the valley, is very heavily ransacked today. Without an archaeological excavation , it can not be determined whether some of the numerous depressions are further parts of buildings .

literature

• Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , pp. 49–51.
• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 115-118.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6834 Berching
2. ^ The Burgstall on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
3. ^ The Burgstall on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
4. ^ The tower hill Gutser Schloss on the side of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
5. ^ Source: Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district, p. 51
6. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal, p. 116
7. ^ The Burgstall Hohenbrunnen on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation