Burgstall moss tendrils

Burgstall moss tendrils
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, slope spur
Conservation status:	Disappeared, neck ditch and ring wall preserved
Place:	Wernberg-Köblitz - Wernberg - "Moss tendrils"
Geographical location	49 ° 32 '52.9 "  N , 12 ° 10' 49.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '52.9 "  N , 12 ° 10' 49.8"  E
Height:	450.4  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Moosranken is a disused medieval castle complex on a slope in the eponymous forest moss tendrils . It lies above the valley of the Kötschdorfer Bach and a tributary that rises from the Christopherus spring, both of which are tributaries of the Naab . It is located around 1400 meters north-northeast of Wernberg Castle in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Wernberg-Köblitz in Bavaria , Germany .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle . The castle is roughly dated to the medieval era. Only a neck ditch and a ring wall have survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6439-0012: Medieval castle stables .

description

The castle stable of the Spornburg is 450.4  m above sea level. NN height on a mountain spur facing east and about 50  meters above the valley floor, which emerges from an eastern slope of 529  m above sea level. NN high mountain jumps out. The castle square is naturally well protected on three sides by the steep slope of the terrain, on the further rising side in the west a ditch was created. This outwardly curved trench, running from north to south, is seven meters wide and up to 1.8 meters deep, and its ends extend to the respective edges of the terrain. A little below this, an excavation mound has been preserved, a sign of the artificial origin of the trench. At the edge of the terrain, the neck ditch is followed by a ring ditch with an outer wall that extends around the castle hill. However, it is only recognizable as such at the connection to the neck ditch, on the rest of the route this moat appears only flattened as a terrace. In this area, formed by the neck ditch and the ring ditch, lies the roughly teardrop-shaped castle grounds, it is about 60 meters long and 25 meters wide, and slopes slightly towards the tip of the spur. A ring wall stretches around the castle grounds, which behind the neck moat is around seven meters wide and up to 1.8 meters high, followed by an edge wall that becomes flatter towards the spur tip and only on the northeast side is visible as a sharp edge of the terrain. The flanks of the castle hill were also artificially divided further. Today there are no more foundations or other building remains.

literature

• 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. 294.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ List of monuments for Wernberg-Köblitz (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)
3. ↑ Location of the Burgstalles in the Bavaria Atlas (here called Schanze)
4. ↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 294