Landeck Castle Stables

Landeck Castle Stables
Burgstall Landeck - View of the Landeck mountain from the south, in the background on the left the castle hill of the Stauf castle ruins
Creation time :	Between 1150 and 1200
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, three moats preserved
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Thalmässing - "Landeck"
Geographical location	49 ° 5 '37.1 "  N , 11 ° 13' 43.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '37.1 "  N , 11 ° 13' 43.3"  E
Height:	504.2  m above sea level NN

The castle grounds with modern buildings

The Postal Landeck is an Outbound Spur castle on the "Landeck" north of the market Thalmässing in Middle Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The site of the former castle is about 700 meters north-northeast of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Gotthard in Thalmässing in the southern Franconian Jura on the southeast end of the north-west to south-east stretching and 504.2  m above sea level. NN high Landeck . This mountain, wooded in its summit area, is bordered in the west and south by the wide valley of the Thalach , on its east side are the valley of the Schwimbach and its side valleys. To the north and northeast, the mountain drops only slightly steeply into smaller side valleys and then rises again after a saddle to a side mountain at 479.1  m above sea level. NN height. The remaining mountain flanks, on the other hand, rise more steeply from the valley and are built with residential buildings up to half the slope in the south. The plateau of the castle is about 100  meters above the valley.

There are other former medieval castles nearby: the ruins of Stauf Castle are located about three kilometers to the north-north-west and the Altenberg Castle Stables , probably a predecessor of the castle, are located directly to the northeast . To the north-west is the Burgstall Schloßberg above the village of the same name. To the south on the so-called Leite there is also a fortification registered on maps as Burgstall, which, however, is probably a prehistoric facility, also to the southeast on the Brandfeld, east of Waizenhofen , and on the Reuther Platte . Another castle site is located about four kilometers southeast on the Auer Berg , the Burgstall Burschel .

Access to the former beer cellar

history

The castle was built from wood in the Hohenstaufen era around 1150 to 1200 and destroyed for the first time in 1309 by the later Emperor Heinrich VII . In the 13th and 14th centuries, the rebuilt castle was used by the Lords of Thalmässing. In 1372, Landeck Castle and Court were pledged by Emperor Charles IV to Burgrave Friedrich IV of Nuremberg . Together with Stauf Castle , they passed to the Margraviate of Ansbach in 1385 . From 1416 to 1437 the facility was pledged to Otto and Eberhart von Au . Located on the border between the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach rulers, the castle was finally destroyed by the latter in 1460 in the course of the Bavarian War between Margrave Albrecht Achilles and the Bavarian Duke Ludwig the Rich . In 1464 the Landeck court was merged with the Ansbach office of Stauf.

In 1668 the stone material of the castle was used to build a road near Stetten, and what was left of the masonry was demolished in 1828. The beer cellars on Landeck were also created from the demolition material; The year 1822 (?) can be seen in the keystone of the cellar archway. From the 18th century, there were shooting ranges of the Thalmässing fire rifle club on the Landeck. In the 20th century there was an inn on the former castle grounds as a popular excursion restaurant. Recently, a small mountain hut was built on the Landeck, which is temporarily managed.

The symbolic crenellated tower in the coat of arms of the Thalmässing market also reminds of Landeck Castle.

There is a legend about a white woman from Landeck, who is said to roam around there on cold winter nights, accompanied by wolves.

description

Of the former castle complex, only the artificially created, now partially flattened castle plateau and the former moat have survived. Little can be said about the appearance of the castle, as there is only one drawing of the ruin on a map from the Stauf office from 1537. The aristocratic castle consisted of two square towers of different sizes made of wood, the residential tower and the keep , on an area protected by wooden palisades , which was also protected by slopes and a seven-meter-deep kennel . On the opposite side of the Zwinger, which is still recognizable today as a ravine, was the outer bailey with the farm buildings on a second hill . This was also protected by a picket fence.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 106-107.
• Felix Mader (edit.): The art monuments of Bavaria , V. Administrative region of Middle Franconia, Volume 3: District Office Hilpoltstein . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1929, ISBN 3-486-50506-8 , p. 303.
• Gottfried Stieber: Landeck . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 536-537 ( digitized version ).
• Landeck Castle . Plate "16 M Middle Ages" of the archaeological hiking trail "Fundreich Thalmässing" below the castle hill
• A new face for the Landeck. Rudolf Osthof dares to create a reconstruction model of the castle that was destroyed in 1460. In: Eichstätter Kurier of August 28, 2015, page 26.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bayern Viewer
2. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 111
3. ↑ According to the entries of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
4. ^ Page of the Thalmässinger carnival guard