Burgstall Kammerstein

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Burgstall Kammerstein
Creation time : around 1181
Castle type : Höhenburg, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Kammerstein
Geographical location 49 ° 17 ′ 37.5 "  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 25.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 37.5 "  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 25.6"  E
Height: 420  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Kammerstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Kammerstein

The Postal chamber stone is an Outbound Höhenburg on a 420  m above sea level. NHN high foothills of the Heidenberg , in the parish village Kammerstein in the district of Roth in Bavaria .

history

The Reichsburg was built in the 12th century by the later ministerial of Emperor Friedrich II. Ramung von Kammerstein († around 1260), probably as the new seat for the administration of the Schwabach royal estate. It was first mentioned in a document in 1181 and was expanded between 1220 and 1230 to protect the city of Schwabach and the three imperial roads running through the Heidenberg area . In 1235 Ramung signed a document called "Ramungus de Camerstain miles olim de Svabahc" (Ramung von Kammerstein, former knight from Schwabach). The Kammersteiner Land was administered from the castle for several centuries.

After the Kammerstein family had died out in 1260, King Albrecht I pledged the castle together with Schwabach, Altdorf and the castle and the town of Kornburg to Count Emich I of Nassau († 1334) and his wife Anna, daughter of Burgrave Friedrich III. to Nuremberg . In 1348 Charles IV gave Emich's sons Johann and Emich II these possessions as a hereditary imperial fief. Her mother Anna owned the Kammerstein Castle as Wittum from 1336 and lived there from 1349 until her death between 1355 and 1357. After Emich II also died in 1359, Johann von Nassau-Hadamar sold the castle and all of it in 1364 remaining property in francs for 15,400 pounds of Heller to his cousin Albrecht von Zollern-Nürnberg.

The castle was destroyed by Bavarian troops in 1461 and only partially rebuilt afterwards. The official residence of the margravial caretaker was relocated to Schwabach and Kammerstein Castle only served the margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach as a hunting seat in the extensive forests around the Heidenberg for a short time. After being destroyed again in 1523, the castle was no longer repaired. It deteriorated more and more and was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The ruin then served as a quarry. When the still standing, now damaged by lightning keep the continued use of a scale on the northern slope of the castle hill quarry stood in the way, decided the Margrave government in Ansbach in 1782 to stop him completely. Only small traces are reminiscent of the once mighty festival. The coat of arms of the parish of Kammerstein indicates the disappeared ministerial family.

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