Burgstall Hunberg

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Burgstall Hunberg
Alternative name (s): Hunburg
Creation time : around 1243
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Nüdlingen - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 13 '21 "  N , 10 ° 8' 19.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '21 "  N , 10 ° 8' 19.6"  E
Height: 350  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Hunberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Hunberg

The Burgstall Hunberg is an abandoned hilltop castle on the southern foothills of the Rhön , near the municipality of Nüdlingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The Burgstall rises in the east of the municipality of Nüdlingen at a striking 350  m above sea level. NN high hill of the castle hill . From a military point of view, it is conveniently located on the connection to Münnerstadt .

history

The Hunberg Castle complex was first mentioned in a document in 1243. Hermann I von Henneberg gave the castle to the Bishop of Würzburg as a reconciliation gift as a result of the battle near Thulbe . The bishop ordered the castle to be destroyed in 1247/48.

Today the castle ruins are listed as architectural monument D-6-72-136-26 "Hunberg Castle ruins, built in 1242 and destroyed in 1248, on the Schlossberg" and as a ground monument D-6-5726-0018 "Late medieval castle stables" Hunberg "" from the Bavarian State Office recorded for monument preservation .

description

The place of the earlier castle is on a north-protruding mountain tongue of the castle hill, which drops steeply into the surrounding valleys up to the southern side. To the south, the grounds of the Schlossberg rise slightly up to 372  m above sea level. NN high peak of the mountain, here the castle was most easily accessible.

This mountain spur is cut off about 110 meters from its top by a 100 meters long, seven meters wide and one and a half meters high wall. An eight-meter-wide trench was also dug on the inside of this wall . After 38 meters, the moat is followed by another moat: a 65-meter-long, three-meter-wide and 0.50-meter-high rampart with a three-meter-wide trench on the outside divided the castle complex into a south-facing outer bailey and a 67-meter-long main castle .

Around the castle area, on the sloping mountain slopes, ditches are still an average of three meters deep, which also have outer walls on the east and west side of the castle site. These trenches flow into the outer trench in the south, at the tip of the spur they are only preserved as a terrace.

literature

  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 81.
  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 28: Bad Kissingen, Franconian Saale, Grabfeld, southern Rhön . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1975, pp. 100-101.
  • Helmut Mahr: Sunken castles in the area: Steineck, Hunberg, Frauenroth . In: Festschrift for the 80th anniversary 1871–1951 and annual report 1951/1952 (Oberrealschule Bad Kissingen). Bad Kissingen 1952, pp. 71-86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Nüdlingen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 134 kB)
  3. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Franconia , p. 81.