Burgstall Small Schwedenschanze

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Burgstall Small Schwedenschanze
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, leveled moat preserved
Place: Landshut- Schönbrunn
Geographical location 48 ° 32 '54.2 "  N , 12 ° 11' 31.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '54.2 "  N , 12 ° 11' 31.4"  E
Height: 418  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Kleine Schwedenschanze (Bavaria)
Burgstall Small Schwedenschanze

The Postal Small Schwedenschanze is an Outbound high medieval hilltop castle in Landshut Schonbrunn district.

The former castle complex is registered as a ground monument with the number D-2-7439-0044 by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

location

The castle stable of the Spornburg is 418  m above sea level. NN on a loess island on the right high bank of the Isar valley near Schönbrunn Palace near the Schweinbach corridor.

History and name

The area of ​​the castle was already around 3500 BC. Settled in the late Neolithic by the Altheim culture , which is evidenced by ceramics, flint fragments , clay from huts, etc.

The Burgstall dates from the High Middle Ages , no further details have been researched.

The Kleine Schwedenschanze used to be called the “Pfarrertafel”. The name " Schwedenschanze " comes from the assumption by the population that the Burgstall would have served as protection or hiding place from the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War or that the facility would have been devastated by the Swedes. The designation "small" was used to distinguish it from the neighboring castle stable, Große Schwedenschanze , which is larger in size.

description

All that remains of the castle is the leveled moat . At the site of the former donjon is now a family home. The northern half of the castle hill has slipped into the Isar valley.

A still recognizable, former path, which stretches along the edge of the hill, extends to the castle stable Große Schwedenschanze.

literature

  • Werner Hübner: Walks in Time - In search of traces through the historical cultural landscape of the city and district of Landshut , Bund Naturschutz in Bayern eV, Kreisgruppe Landshut, 2009, pp. 27-29

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Hübner: Walks in Time - Looking for Traces through the Historical Cultural Landscape of the City and District of Landshut , Bund Naturschutz in Bayern eV, Kreisgruppe Landshut, 2009, pp. 27-29
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Landshut (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ Bayerische Annalen - Blatt für Vaterlandskunde , Munich 1834, p. 144
  4. ↑ Alois Staudenraus: Chronicle of the city of Landshut in Bavaria , part 3, Verlag Attenkofer, Landshut 1832, pp. 11-12
  5. ↑ Alois Staudenraus: Walks in and around Landshut: In letters to a friend , Verlag Attenkofer, Landshut 1835, pp. 43–44