Burgstall Ottenberg

Burgstall Ottenberg
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, stone wall without rising masonry
Standing position :	Ministerialenburg
Place:	Ottenberg - Pilsach
Geographical location	49 ° 19 '20.7 "  N , 11 ° 29' 25.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '20.7 "  N , 11 ° 29' 25.7"  E
Height:	584  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Ottenberg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle in the Upper Palatinate municipality Pilsach in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria . The Burgstall is located 1200 m west of Pilsach on the Ottenberg .

description

At the highest point of the Ottenberg there is a rectangle of a stone wall without a ditch . The dimensions are 43 × 30 m. In the middle of the west side there is a hollow, which extends the area a little. Around 1805 there were still remains of the wall here, which have since come off.

history

At Pilsach there was a family of imperial ministers who were named along with other imperial servants in the 12th century. A Scrutolf de Bibesache appears in a document from the Weihenstephan Monastery in 1138 . In a document dated February 2, 1282 of the Seligenporten monastery , the brothers Gotfrid and Werinher de Bebesbach are named as witnesses . This Reich ministerial family probably continued to live in the Lords of Pilsach, who worked as ducal officials in the Neumarkt area until the 16th century. In Pilsach they are documented until the middle of the 14th century, so one finds a Konrad the Pildsaher in 1310 and 1322 in a document of the Seligenporten monastery. The family sat on the Ottenberg, the "upper seat" in Pilsach. At the end of the 13th century there was also a "lower seat" in Pilsach , which was held by the noble family of mustard from Pilsach .

The Pilsachers, the Reich ministerial family, subsequently entered the service of the sovereign because their property was insufficient to develop their own rule. On March 15, 1405, Konrad Pilsacher, now a citizen of Nuremberg, was the last to sell his goods in Pilsach to Marquard the Schmid. As the last of the Pilsacher family, Katharina Pilsacher died in 1490 as a nun in Seligenporten.

literature

• Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district - A guide to historical sites. District of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate (Ed.), Undated
• 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. 1957.

Web links

• Entry on Ottenberg Castle that has disappeared in the private database "All Castles".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 194–195 , above ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on May 2, 2020]).