Burgstall Keilberg

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Burgstall Keilberg
Wall with neck collar

Wall with neck collar

Creation time : Early to high medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Offenhausen - "Keilberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 26 '30.3 "  N , 11 ° 24' 23.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '30.3 "  N , 11 ° 24' 23.1"  E
Height: 547.2  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Keilberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Keilberg

The Postal wedge mountain is a suspected Outbound early- to High Middle Spur castle on a spur plateau of 547.2  m above sea level. NHN high Keilberg near Offenhausen in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .

In 1955, the Nuremberg castle researcher Hellmut Kunstmann referred in a publication to the castle site on the prominent mountain spur of the Keilberg projected to the northeast and suspected an early to high medieval tower castle . Today the well-preserved ditch-wall system towards the mountain spur is still preserved.

Excavations 2005/06 the foundations were on the presumed site of the castle as thanks for surviving the plague erected in 1436 and in 1448 the two saints Saint Otmar and St. Ottilie consecrated wedge mountain chapel excavated.

The Burgstall was designated by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) as a ground monument "Medieval Burgstall" (D-5-6534-0107).

literature

  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Bertold Freiherr von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside. 2006

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Offenhausen II at herrensitze.com
  3. ^ Entry on Offenhausen in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  4. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Offenhausen Monument List , accessed on July 7, 2020

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Keilberg (Offenhausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files