Burgstall Mallerstetten

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Burgstall Mallerstetten
Burgstall Mallerstetten - View from the ridge to the attack side of the castle in the center of the picture (July 2013)

Burgstall Mallerstetten - View from the ridge to the attack side of the castle in the center of the picture (July 2013)

Alternative name (s): Burgstall on the Schmalzen
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, neck ditch and a moat preserved
Place: Dietfurt an der Altmühl - Mallerstetten -Waldflur "Auf der Schmalzen"
Geographical location 49 ° 2 '24.2 "  N , 11 ° 33' 34.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '24.2 "  N , 11 ° 33' 34.2"  E
Height: 480  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Mallerstetten (Bavaria)
Burgstall Mallerstetten

The Postal Mallerstetten or Burgstall also on the lard is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on a mountain ridge in the forest corridor "on the lard," about 1,500 feet south-southeast of the Catholic Church of St. George in Mallerstetten or 2,150 meters west-northwest of the town of Dietfurt an der Altmühl in Upper Palatinate District of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria , Germany .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle . It is roughly dated to the medieval period. Possibly the castle was the predecessor of the Klevenhüll Castle of the Lords of Klevenhüll. Only a neck ditch and ramparts have survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6935-0029: Medieval castle stables .

description

The castle site is located at about 480  m above sea level. NHN and thus around 110  meters above the valley floor on a long, south-east facing mountain tongue above the Dietfurt valley basin. Three sides of the mountain drop steeply into the valley of the Altmühl and into a side valley in the north; the castle was so naturally well protected. Only in the northwest, where the castle area first merges into a narrow and around 250 meter long ridge and then into the Jura plateau, did it have to be specially secured. There the castle site is fortified by a 35 meter long and four meter wide neck ditch and an eight meter wide rampart immediately behind it. The jump height, i.e. the height difference between the bottom of the trench and the ridge, is up to 1.8 meters.

The triangular, 75-meter-long and 35-meter-wide castle area slopes slightly towards the mountain top. The long sides of the site are also surrounded by marginal ramparts that are still poorly preserved, so that the area is slightly higher than the surrounding area.

literature

  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , pp. 67–68.
  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 1: Lower Altmühltal . 2nd Edition. Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-42-3 , pp. 87-88.
  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 185.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ^ Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district. P. 68.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Dietfurt an der Altmühl (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 163 kB)
  4. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate. P. 185.