Burgstall Ketschenstein

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Burgstall Ketschenstein
Burgstall Ketschenstein - View of the castle site on the edge of the rock from the Dragonerspitz section fortification to the south (June 2014)

Burgstall Ketschenstein - View of the castle site on the edge of the rock from the Dragonerspitz section fortification to the south (June 2014)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Ground floor residence
Conservation status: Disappeared, ring wall with outer moat preserved
Place: Buttenheim - Hochstall - "Ketschenstein"
Geographical location 49 ° 50 ′ 31.8 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 18"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 31.8 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 18"  E
Height: 515.6  m above sea level NN
Ring trench profile (June 2014)

The Burgstall Ketschenstein is an abandoned medieval residence in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria . It lies on a mountain spur that juts southeast into the valley of the Deichselbach , the so-called Ketschenstein , around 765 meters east-southeast of the center of Hochstall in the Upper Franconian community of Buttenheim . No historical or archaeological information is known about the castle stables , ceramic shards that were found below the fortifications on the Annastein rock are dated as medieval. They are now in the Bamberg Historical Museum . Only a simple wall-trench system has survived from the system. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6132-0085 . Ground floor mansion from the Middle Ages .

description

The circular, around 80 square meters small fortification is assigned to the type of the ground floor raised hide . The southern half of the complex was naturally very well protected by the vertically sloping rock walls of the Ketschenstein. In the north, where the fortified area merges completely flat into the plateau, a semicircular ring wall with an outer moat was created. The wall is still 1.3 meters high, the trench 1.2 meters deep. A solid house made of stone or half-timbered houses could once have stood on the inner surface, on which no traces of building above ground are visible today .

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View of the castle from the north (June 2014)

literature

  • Björn-Uwe Abels : high stable, ground floor residence on Ketschenstein . In: Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 225-226.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 59.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the castle stable in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Buttenheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 139 kB)
  3. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 225 f.