Burgstall Klingenberg

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Burgstall Klingenberg
Alternative name (s): Geissberg
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Place: Aichach -Oberwittelsbach
Geographical location 48 ° 28 '13.8 "  N , 11 ° 10' 29.6"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '13.8 "  N , 11 ° 10' 29.6"  E
Height: 500  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Klingenberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Klingenberg

The Burgstall Klingenberg , also known as Klingsberg or popularly Geißberg , is only about 150 meters northwest of the ancestral castle of the Wittelsbach family in Oberwittelsbach near Aichach ( Aichach-Friedberg district , Swabia ) on a ridge 550 m above sea level. The high medieval hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) was measured and topographically recorded in 1978 and 1980 in the course of the excavations at Wittelsbach Castle (Eugen Ixmeier, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ).

history

The Postal the high Motte already appear on a first sketch-like measurement by the topographer L. Popp (1860). There is no written or oral tradition about its history. Such hill towers were built in Central Europe from the 11th to the 13th centuries. It is therefore not clear whether this is an older predecessor of the Wittelsbach castle or a fortress of this weir system. The function as the seat of one of the lords' servants should also be considered.

Here Rischert locates the residence of a Palatinate clerk of the "von Wittelsbach" family, who moved to Unterwittelsbach in 1270 and can be traced back to the Landsberg bourgeoisie under the name "Wittelspeck" since 1385 .

description

The small castle complex is hidden on a railing rib behind the core of Wittelsbach Castle, from which it is separated by a brook valley. The area is completely forested. The tower hill on top rises about 12 to 15 meters above the site. Despite its base width of around 45 to 50 meters, the earth cone is one of the smaller of its kind. The plateau measures only around 15 by 20 meters and is difficult to access via the steep flanks.

In front of the tower hill there are earth walls in the southwest and northeast, the height of which is between two and four meters. It is possible that these earthworks come from an older predecessor system in which the hill was subsequently filled up. As forecourts they were because of the limited space only a limited.

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval tower hill under monument number D 7-7533-0004.

literature

  • Robert Koch: Excavations in Wittelsbach Castle near Aichach - A preliminary report on the results up to May 1980 . Augsburg 1980.
  • Helmut Rischert: Castle stables in the Aichach-Friedberg district . In: Local history contributions from Augsburger Raum 1, 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry