Burgstall Oedenthurn

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Burgstall Oedenthurn
View over the section wall, on the right the castle area (December 2013)

View over the section wall, on the right the castle area (December 2013)

Alternative name (s): Plassenburg (?)
Creation time : probably medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Disappeared, section wall and other wall remains preserved
Standing position : Unknown
Place: Parsberg - Oedenthurn - "Haberberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 12 '28.9 "  N , 11 ° 46' 37.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '28.9 "  N , 11 ° 46' 37.9"  E
Height: 561.4  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Oedenthurn (Bavaria)
Burgstall Oedenthurn

The Oedenthurn castle stable is probably the remains of an abandoned medieval castle. It is located above the district of Oedenthurn at the highest point on the Haberberg in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Parsberg in Bavaria , Germany . No historical data are known of the castle, it may be about the Plassenburg, or a prehistoric fortification. Only a section wall and other wall remnants, which may have come from buildings, have survived.

Geographical location

The castle site of the Spornburg lies in the eastern area of ​​the Frankenjura low mountain range , on which 561.4  m above sea level. NN high Haberberg , an elongated mountain ridge facing southwest. Except for the east side of the mountain, which merges into an elevation a few meters higher, the Haberberg drops steeply about 60 meters to the valley.

The Burgstall is located around 265 meters south of the village of Oedenthurn or around 6700 meters northeast of the center of Parsberg on the Hörmannsdorf district .

There are other former medieval or prehistoric castles in the vicinity: about 560 meters north of the castle site is a tower hill directly on the St 2234 road. About 1400 meters east there is another section of fortification on a mountain spur in the Kohlschlag corridor above the town of Effersdorf. Their timing is also unknown. Another fortification was located north of the Stieglerfelsen on the Mayerberg.

history

To date, no information is known about this fortification, it is not even certain whether it is a medieval castle site. After Manfred Jehle in the Historical Atlas of Bavaria , the Burgstall Oedenthurn was also called Plassenburg until around 1835 . The builders and owners of a Plassenburg are also unknown.

Today the Burgstall is registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as a ground monument D-3-6736-0002 "Wall system of prehistoric times or the Middle Ages" .

description

The place of the castle on the slightly elevated end of an elongated mountain ridge was cordoned off by a section wall (title picture). This wall, which is slightly outwardly curved, is still about half a meter high and begins on the northwest slope at a rock edge that drops a few meters vertically. It runs over the entire ridge to the southeastern slope edge, where it follows the edge for a few more meters to the spur peak. No further edge fortifications are visible on the entire remaining castle area, measuring 90 by 50 meters and protected by the steep slope of the terrain or by the rocky edges on the northwest side. After about eight meters, the section wall is followed by further remnants of wall on its central axis; according to Rädle, it could be the site of an earlier tower. Further towards the spur tip there is possibly another remnant of a wall on the relatively flat castle surface.

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. 79–80.
  • 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. 176.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 176 and Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district , p. 79 f.
  2. ^ Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district , p. 79
  3. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  5. ↑ List of monuments for Plankenfels (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 128 kB)