Burgstall Hoher Stein (Reckendorf)

Burgstall high stone
Burgstall Hoher Stein - View of the tower-like castle stable from the west
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Castle stable with a few remains of the wall
Place:	Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia - Reckendorf
Geographical location	49 ° 52 '59.4 "  N , 11 ° 10' 16.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '59.4 "  N , 11 ° 10' 16.2"  E
Height:	491.6  m above sea level NN

The Postal Tall stone is an Outbound probably late medieval nobility castle , which over the location Reckendorf in the market Heiligenstadt in Oberfranken in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria , Germany lies.

The castle stable is freely accessible.

Geographical location

View of the Hohe Stein from the west

The former summit castle is located in the northwestern part of the Franconian Alb at 491.6  m above sea level. NN high crest of the mountain called Hoher Stein . The Hohe Stein lies on the eastern edge of the Neumühlbach valley, which flows into the Leinleiter valley a little south of Heiligenstadt . The Burgstall is located about 100 meters above the valley, about 370 meters north-northeast of the center of Reckendorf and about 2100 meters north of the Protestant parish church of Sankt Michael in Heiligenstadt.

Nearby are other former medieval castles, immediately south of Greifenstein Castle , to the northeast of the Heroldstein castle stables near Hohenpölz, to the west of a castle stables on the Seigelstein, southwest of Tiefenpölz , to the southwest of the Rothenstein castle stables and Schwedenfelsen on the Altenberg near Burggrub , and a Tower hill in Zoggendorf .

History of the castle

Remnants of the wall on the highest point of the castle stable

Nothing is known about the history of the former castle on the Hohen Stein, not even its original name or its builder.

Today the place of the abandoned castle is densely wooded, only a remnant of the wall and the moat are preserved . The ground monument recorded by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as a "hilltop settlement of the late Neolithic and castle stables of the Middle Ages" has the monument number D-4-6133-0014.

literature

• Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, ISBN 3-7686-9265-5 , p. 28.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6133 Muggendorf
2. ↑ List of monuments for Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 145 kB)