Burgstall Miedering
| Burgstall Miedering | ||
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 Burgstall Miedering - View of the Burgstall from the west |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Ministerialenburg | |
| Place: | Affing -Miedering | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 25 '49.8 " N , 10 ° 58' 2.7" E | |
| Height: | 497.7 m above sea level NN | |
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The Burgstall Miedering is an abandoned Niederungsburg located about 20 meters above the Affingen district of Miedering ( Aichach-Friedberg district , Swabia ) at 497 m above sea level. NN high hill. From the high medieval castle , only the main castle cone and an upstream have terrace receive.
history
The fortress was probably built in the 12th century as the residence of a family of ministers of the Counts of Dachau . These dynasts came from a sideline of the powerful Count Palatine of Bavaria ( Wittelsbacher ). Between 1162 and 1170 a Werinhart de Můterchingen appears in the documents. After the death of the last Count Konrad III. his widow sold the rule together with her other possessions to Duke Otto I from the main line of the Wittelsbach family. At the beginning of the 13th century, Eberhard von Mütrichingen can still be documented as a ducal servant. Because of the proximity of the Burgplatz to Mühlhausen Castle , the complex was probably dispensable and abandoned in the High Middle Ages. The village under the Burgstall was assigned to the Mühlhausen office.
In the 19th century, this ground monument, popularly known as “Gscheibung” because of its shape, was also interpreted as a Roman tower. However, as early as 1895, Franz Weber interpreted the complex as an " early medieval " ministerial seat.
description
The ground monument shows the typical two-part system of a high medieval servant's seat. The level terrace (approx. 60 x 20 meters) of the former outer bailey can still be seen under the cone of the main castle . The final slope edge falls steeply into the valley.
The oval main castle cone (approx. 46 x 40 meters) rises up to 10 meters above the site. The neck ditch to be assumed in the south and south-east is largely leveled, but can still be seen as a hollow in the terrain. Due to the agricultural use of the site, no stone or brick remains of the superstructures can be seen above ground. Otto Schneider was still able to document some masonry bricks around 1965 ( catalog of the sites and monuments in the Friedberg district , typescript, no year).
The courtyard (Miedering 4) below the Burgstall is likely to go back to the former service yard of the ministerial headquarters. The short former castle path runs from this property up to the outer bailey.
The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval castle stable under monument number D 7-7531-0030.
literature
- Franz Weber: On the prehistory and early history of the Lechrain - the castle stable of Miedering . In: Journal of the historical association for Swabia and Neuburg, Volume 22, 1895, pp. 34–35.
- Helmut Rischert: The castles in the Affing community . In: Aichach-Friedberg district (ed.): Altbayern in Schwaben 2007 . Reports and research results from the Aichach-Friedberg district, Matthäus Günther Verlag, Friedberg 2007, pp. 27–46.
- Aichach-Friedberg district (ed.): The five castles in the Affing community . Ground monuments in the district of Aichach-Friedberg No. 6, leaflet for the "Open Monument Day", text Helmut Rischert, Aichach 2006.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
