Castle stable in Lösau

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Castle stable in Lösau
Creation time : Probably 11th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, moat
Place: Kulmbach -Lösau- "Lösauer Berg"
Geographical location 50 ° 9 '53.1 "  N , 11 ° 25' 6.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '53.1 "  N , 11 ° 25' 6.9"  E
Height: 440  m above sea level NN
Castle stable, Lösau (Bavaria)
Castle stable in Lösau

The Postal Lösau is a small Outbound medieval hilltop castle in the forest department Brunn Leite on a mountain spur overlooking the valley of Lösau. It is located about 350 meters northeast of the center of Lösau, a current district of Kulmbach in Upper Franconia , Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this spur castle , it is roughly dated as medieval, it was probably built in the 11th century. The castle was located immediately to the east of the Hohe Straße , a medieval old street , which descended from the plateau . Only a section wall with an external trench has been preserved from the complex. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5834-0017: Medieval castle stables .

description

The rather small one-piece castle site belongs to the type of the one- storey residence , that is, its only slightly fortified interior is not raised compared to the area in front of the castle. It is located at about 440  m above sea level. NN altitude and thus around 50  meters above the valley floor of the Lösau on a south-west facing mountain spur of the Lösau mountain. Except for the northeast side, the remaining sides of the spur fall very steeply into the valley and were therefore naturally well protected. Only in the north-east does the mountain spur merge into the Jura plateau, rising slightly and had to be paved. For this purpose, a 40-meter-long section wall with an outer ditch that bends at an obtuse angle was created. This rampart ends at both ends in the steep slope, its width is still six meters, its height measured from the inside around two meters. The depth of the trench from the outside is 1.6 meters, the jump height, i.e. the height difference between the ridge and the bottom of the trench, is up to three meters. This section fortification sealed off a fortified inner area of ​​about 32 by 22 meters.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , pp. 151–152.
  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach . Published by the district of Kulmbach, Neudrossenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033354-5 , pp. 119 and 159.
  • Denis Andre Chevalley (arr.): Monuments in Bavaria , Volume IV: Upper Franconia . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-486-52395-9 .
  • 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. 116.

Web links

  • Entry to Lösau in the private database "All Castles".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 116 and Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Wanderings in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 151
  3. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 152
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Kulmbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 185 kB)
  5. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  6. ↑ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 116