Burgstall Pölling

Burgstall Pölling
	View of the castle stables from the south
Alternative name (s):	Burgstall Rittershof
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, moat preserved
Place:	Rittershof (Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz) - Woffenbach (Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz)
Geographical location	49 ° 17 '11.4 " N , 11 ° 23' 41.4" E Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '11.4 " N , 11 ° 23' 41.4" E
Height:	500 m above sea level NHN

The Burgstall Pölling , also called Burgstall Rittershof , is an abandoned medieval hilltop castle about 700 m west-northwest of Rittershof and 1600 m west-southwest of Pölling , today a district of the large district town of Neumarkt in Upper Palatinate , in the forest department of the old castle .

description

The Burgstall is on the top of a ridge in a pine forest. The Burgstall forms an approximately rectangular area of 20 × 48 m and is surrounded on all sides by a ditch ; this is formed on the longitudinal edges of ramparts in front of the slope edge. On the narrow sides against the mountain peak there is a cross ditch without embankment, uphill there is a neck ditch , the clearance of which is thrown into a cone of rubble on the northern slope. A section trench with a wall lies 20 m in front of the neck trench; this runs diagonally in the northeast with an outward kink over a length of 20 m. The system is broken through on the south side and the southwest corner by deep gutters. There are no building remains inside the castle area.

history

Rittershof is named after the Urbarium Baiuarium Transdanubiae of 1280 as the estate of the Bavarian dukes of the Wittelsbach family in the succession of the Stauffer in the Neumarkt mayor's office.

Rittershof Castle was probably the first seat of the Pöllinger family; Already around 1070 a Mazil de Pollingen can be found when Censualen was handed over to the monastery of Sankt Emmeram . Ulrich de bellungen (Ulrich von Pöllingen) appears in the deed of foundation of the Seligenporten monastery in 1249 . The Pöllinger family is also mentioned several times in the 15th century, such as Ulrich Pöllinger, who appears as the ducal keeper of Haimburg .

The Pöllingers probably gave up their seat on the mountain in the Middle Ages and settled in the village of Pölling.

literature

Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
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. 212.

Web links

Entry on Rittershof Castle that has disappeared in the private database “All castles”.

Heinzburg and Rittershof castle stables (Pölling, City of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz) on burgseite.de, accessed on April 16, 2020.

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 214 , above ( [1] [accessed April 16, 2020]).
^ Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 41 ( [2] [accessed April 16, 2020]).

[1] Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 214 , above ( [1] [accessed April 16, 2020]).

[2] Bernhard Heinloth : Neumarkt . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 16). Munich 1967, p. 41 ( [2] [accessed April 16, 2020]).