Hohenrasch Castle Stables

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Hohenrasch Castle Stables
Burgstall Rascher Berg - View of the outer, now heavily flattened moat (August 2013)

Burgstall Rascher Berg - View of the outer, now heavily flattened moat (August 2013)

Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Castle stable, double moat and a hollow have been preserved
Standing position : Reichsburg
Place: Altdorf near Nuremberg - Rasch - "Rascher Berg"
Geographical location 49 ° 21 '51.2 "  N , 11 ° 23' 52.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '51.2 "  N , 11 ° 23' 52.9"  E
Height: 465  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Hohenrasch (Bavaria)
Hohenrasch Castle Stables
Bailey hill of the Burgstall in Winterleitenholz (July 2011)

The Hohenrasch Castle Stables are believed to be the site of the abandoned high medieval Hohenrasch Castle. The castle site is on the west side of the Rascher Berg , which rises above the Schwarzach valley , and is east-southeast of the village of Rasch in the municipality of Altdorf near Nuremberg in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .

Whether this is the location of Hohenrasch Castle cannot yet be confirmed with certainty, according to recent literature it could also have been on the south side of the mountain opposite. There is another castle stable in the Winterleitenholz forest, of which a tower hill with an impressive ring moat has been preserved. From the castle stable on the Rascher Berg only a double moat and a hollow have survived, the place is now protected as a ground monument.

Geographical location

The castle stable of the hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) is located about 1,800 meters east-southeast of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Michael in Rasch or 3900 meters southeast of the center of Altdorf, directly on the border with the Upper Palatinate administrative district . The place of the lost castle is in the Middle Franconian Jura , on the free-standing, elongated Rascher Berg , which extends from the southeast to the northwest. The 469  m above sea level. NN high mountain drops steeply on all sides into the surrounding valleys, in the east, north and west it is surrounded by the Schwarzach, in the south it is bordered by the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal . The former castle was about 70  meters above the valley floor on the western end of the mountain, which extends only a few meters below the summit point. The slightly westward sloping and rather narrow end of the mountain is naturally well protected by the steep drop, only the rising east side had to be faced by walls and ditches.

There are other former medieval castles in the vicinity, only about 980 meters south there is a castle stable in Winterleitenholz, which is also a possible location for Hohenrasch Castle. About 1200 meters to the north-northeast there are also two castle stables on the Klosterberg near Gnadenberg , about which not much is known. Of them only a ring ditch or a neck ditch was preserved. In the western town of Rasch, immediately to the east of the parish church, there is the Welserschloss mansion , which is also known as Niederrasch . To the west stood the Prackenfels Castle , today another castle stable of which no remains have been preserved, on the northern edge of the Schwarzach valley in the town of the same name. A little further to the west is the half-ruin of Thann Castle in the municipality of Burgthann . The ruins of Haimburg Castle are in the southeast .

literature

  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . Published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft eV, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 , pp. 335–337.
  • 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. 96–97.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : Communications of the Altnürnberger landscape . Published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft e. V., December 1955, 4th year, issue 2, pp. 23-25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside , pp. 335–337 and identical web link "Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside"
  2. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  3. ↑ The seat on the castles and manor houses in the Nuremberg countryside