Castle stable Hubertusfelsen

Castle stable Hubertusfelsen
Image 1: View of the castle stable with the neck ditch from the north
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	One-piece hilltop castle on the edge of the valley
Conservation status:	Gone
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Kinding - Unteremmendorf
Geographical location	48 ° 59 '16.8 "  N , 11 ° 25' 16.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '16.8 "  N , 11 ° 25' 16.3"  E
Height:	470  m above sea level NN

The Hubertusfelsen castle stable is a former high medieval aristocratic castle that lies above the village of Unteremmendorf at the upper edge of the Altmühltal in the municipality of Kinding in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt in Bavaria , Germany . The Ministerialenburg is almost completely gone today , only very few remains are evidence of it.

The castle stable is freely accessible at all times.

Geographical location

Photo 2: Remnants of the curtain wall on the western side of the castle stable

The former mountain castle is located in the southern part of the Franconian Alb in the Altmühltal nature park . It is located about 100 meters above the Altmühl valley on a foothills of the Kühberg that protrudes to the north on the southern edge of the central Altmühltal, about 975 meters west-southwest of the Church of St. Nicholas in Unteremmendorf or about 3,150 meters south-east of Kinding.

In the vicinity of the Hubertusfelsen castle stalls there are other former medieval castles, about 1,000 meters east of the Burgstall Torfelsen with its impressive rock gate and another 200 meters east of it the Burgstall Saufelsen , all three were probably castles of the same noble family. A few kilometers to the northeast there is another castle stable near the village of Paulushofen , to the north is Hirschberg Castle , to the west is the Rumburg castle ruins near Enkering and to the south-southwest is Kipfenberg Castle above the village of the same name.

History of the castle

There is still no precise information about the builder and the time of construction of the castle on the Hubertusfelsen. Like the two neighboring castles on Torfelsen and those on Saufelsen, it was probably built by the Emmendorfer family of ministers, first mentioned in 1119 . You were Ministeriale of the Hochstift Eichstätt . The village of Emmendorf, after which the Emmendorfer named themselves, is located immediately adjacent to the former castle complex.

Since the Emmendorfer had several coats of arms , all three castles were in their possession, on each of which a side line of the family sat. The castle on the Hubertusfelsen, whose historical name, like that of the other two castles, is not known, was probably the youngest complex of the Emmendorfer.

The castles were probably abandoned after the family died out after 1506.

Today the place of the abandoned castle is densely wooded, only the moat and small remains of the wall above the curtain wall and a presumably tower-shaped building have survived.

The Burgstall can now be reached by a hiking trail, and an information board about the Hubertusfelsen castle stable is located at the neighboring Burgstall Torfelsen to the east.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as the "Tower Hill of the High and Late Middle Ages" bears the monument number D-1-7034-0121.

description

The former hilltop castle is located on the edge of the valley just a few meters below the plateau on a striking rock plateau protruding from the edge of the valley to the north into the valley of the Altmühl. This plateau falls a few meters vertically to the west (Fig. 9) and north and then, like the entire east side of the castle square, turns into a steep slope that extends down to the valley floor. On the south side, on the other hand, the plateau to the Kühberg rises slightly, so that a wide and deep ditch had to be dug here to protect the castle.

The area of ​​this relatively small spur castle is triangular in shape and is about 45 meters long and has a maximum width of 25 meters.

The site of the former castle complex is divided by an embankment sloping about two meters (Fig. 4) into a higher, southern area (Fig. 1 and 4) and a lower area at the top of the rock in the north (Fig. 7 and 8) .

In the southern area, which has a trapezoidal area, there was a square, probably tower-shaped building on the slope of the terrain, remains of the foundation wall can still be seen (Fig. 3 and 5). This area had to be secured to the slightly higher and rising area in front of the castle by a semicircular neck ditch carved into the rock (Fig. 1 and 6). This trench is still about four meters deep and six to eight meters wide today. Towards the neck ditch and on the west side, an approximately 0.50 meter high stone wall can still be seen in this area of ​​the castle, the rest of the collapsed curtain wall . There are also a few remains of the wall on the west side (Fig. 2). This area of ​​the castle probably consisted of a walled courtyard with a residential tower in the center.

In the lower area there are no more building remains today.

Images of the castle stables

and display information about the image

Image 3: View from the upper part of the castle over the rampart and the neck ditch onto the foreground of the castle. In the foreground of the picture to the left of the tree stump you can see the place of an abandoned building

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  Image 4: Terrain that divides the castle area into two levels

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  Photo 5: The highest point of the castle stables with the remains of the foundation wall of a presumably tower-shaped building

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  Image 6: The ditch of the castle stable, on the left the area of ​​the castle

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  Photo 7: Lower part of the castle at the top of the castle rock

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  Image 8: Northern tip of the castle area

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  Photo 9: The steep drop of the castle rock on the western side of the castle square

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 122-124.
• Brun Appel, Rudolf Böhm: Castles and palaces - Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park . Published by the district of Eichstätt, Hercynia Verlag, Kipfenberg 1981, pp. 40–41.

Web links

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

• The Burgstall at Naturpark-Altmuehltal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Burgstall on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 183 kB)
2. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl 1993, p. 124.
3. ↑ Information board at Burgstall Torfelsen
4. ↑ Burgstall Hubertusfelsen on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 148 kB)