Castle stable of Niedersenftenberg

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Castle stable of Niedersenftenberg
Burgstall Niedersenftenberg - View of the Burgberg from the south-east (September 2013)

Burgstall Niedersenftenberg - View of the Burgberg from the south-east (September 2013)

Creation time : 1250 to 1300
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, moat, slight traces of the wall
Standing position : Noble Free
Place: Buttenheim - Senftenberg
Geographical location 49 ° 49 '7.5 "  N , 11 ° 4' 30.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '7.5 "  N , 11 ° 4' 30.3"  E
Height: 406.1  m above sea level NN
Lower Senftenberg Castle Stables (Bavaria)
Castle stable of Niedersenftenberg

The Postal Lower Senftenberg is an Outbound Spur castle on the Senftenberg at 401.1  m above sea level. NN in today's Senftenberg part of the municipality of Buttenheim in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria .

In the second half of the 13th century, the noble free von Schlüsselberg , owners of Obersenftenberg Castle , built a second castle on the Senftenberg named Niedersenftenberg , which was mentioned in a document in 1295 with Vogt Ulrich von Senftenberg and 1296 with Vogt Konrad von Senftenberg. In 1525, Niedersenftenberg Castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War and demolished in 1723.

The St. George's Chapel is located on what is now the Burgstall with only minor traces of a moat and wall . The castle site is registered by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as a ground monument D-4-6132-0095 "Archaeological findings in the area of ​​the medieval castle stables with the former outer bailey and in the area of ​​the early modern Catholic chapel St. Georg with its medieval predecessor on the Niedersenftenberg near Gunzendorf" .

literature

  • Rainer Hoffmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 167-168.
  • Gustav Voit, Walter Rüfer: A castle tour through Franconian Switzerland - In the footsteps of the draftsman AF Thomas Ostertag , 2nd edition. Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-7896-0064-4 , pp. 170-175.
  • 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. 50.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Buttenheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)