Burgstall Osterwiese

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Burgstall Osterwiese
Burgstall Osterwiese, display board

Burgstall Osterwiese, display board

Creation time : around 950
Castle type : Spurburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Heidenberg-Winterleite
Geographical location 49 ° 16 '58.1 "  N , 11 ° 1' 5.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '58.1 "  N , 11 ° 1' 5.9"  E
Height: 432  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Osterwiese (Bavaria)
Burgstall Osterwiese

The Burgstall Osterwiese is an abandoned hilltop castle five kilometers south of Schwabach in Bavaria .

location

The Burgstall Osterwiese lies at an altitude of 432  m above sea level. NHN on the Kegelbuck . This is the easternmost branch of the Winterleite , the southern mountain range of the Heidenberg . The community-free area is densely forested and today belongs to the district of Roth .

history

Wall and moat of the
Burgstall Osterwiese in winter

The 0.5 hectare site has inventories dating back to the Neolithic , as excavation findings show. The castle complex was built on the mountain spur around 950. The approximately 1000 square meter castle complex was built using wood and clay. Presumably they served at the time of the uprising of Liudolf the Swabians against King Otto I , first as Fliehburg before until 955 roving Hungary . The land names in the valley, Ungarnthaler Weg , Ungarngraben and the name of the nearby town of Ungerthal still indicate this today.

The so-called Italerstraße , an important trade route, led to this point through a ravine and was therefore easy to control there. The exposed location also offers a direct line of sight to Schwabach and Nuremberg to the north and to Weißenburg to the south.

The excavation findings from 1998 indicate both a military and a simultaneous, civil use of the castle for the medieval horizons. In addition to high-quality, individualized pottery and uniform iron arrowheads, some weaving weights ( spindle whorls ) were also found there. The bricked clay finds also show that the facility was destroyed by a fire. Today it can no longer be determined whether this was caused by lightning, carelessness or warlike events. It can be assumed, however, that a complete reconstruction was not carried out because of the lack of water in the Spurslage; a private well would have been very cumbersome in the upcoming sandstone 40 to 50 meters deep in the rock drilled must be to get into the groundwater sole. There is also no doubt that the site was still cultivated, at least seasonally, for nine centuries. The Osterwiese has always been kept fairly free of vegetation (e.g. as a mountain pasture ) and is still mentioned as a festival site around 1850.

Only the clearing and the ramparts and moats are preserved today; these are protected as ground monument with D-5-6732-0019 .

The site is freely accessible all year round and there is a signposted hiking trail in the immediate vicinity. An information board gives information about the history.

Web links

Commons : Heidenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgstall, Italerstraße location map on Heidenberg
  2. ^ Burgstall Osterwiese at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ Heidenberg hiking map