Burgstall Parsberg

Burgstall Parsberg
The hill with the castle stable from the south
Creation time :	High to late medieval
Castle type :	Hill castle, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower hill
Standing position :	presumably noble free, Ministeriale
Place:	Puchheim - Germering
Geographical location	48 ° 8 '17 "  N , 11 ° 20' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '17 "  N , 11 ° 20' 17"  E
Height:	550  m above sea level NN

Ditch on the south side

The Postal Parsberg means a Outbound hilltop castle on a 550  m above sea level. NN hilltop in the Puchheim area on a hill above the Germeringer See recreation area in the Fürstenfeldbruck district in Upper Bavaria . The freely accessible ground monument goes back to a high to late medieval tower castle (Motte), from which the salt road between Munich and Augsburg was possibly controlled.

history

No information about the history of the castle complex has been preserved in the local historical sources. The ceramic fragments that were found indicate that the Burgplatz was used at least until the 14th century. The brick rubble still detectable in the area of ​​the tower hill and the eastern outer bailey dates to the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. The typological features of the western castle area even point to the early High Middle Ages .

Whether the castle was the residence of a nobleman or a ministerial cannot be clearly decided. In addition to the dukes of Bavaria and the counts of Andechs , the bishops of Freising would be conceivable as feudal lords . The Hochstift Freising owned several properties in this region and appears in numerous contemporary documents.

It is also unclear whether the lords of the castle belong to the local nobility of Puchheim or Germering. In the past, the extensive ground monument on the Parsberg was even mistaken for a Celtic square hill.

Some arrow and crossbow irons found could be related to the Battle of Alling , which was fought nearby in 1422. However, it is doubtful whether the castle only went under at that time. At least the high medieval fortification does not seem to have been significantly changed by then.

description

The medieval castle was built on a low hilltop above the Munich gravel plain. The only approximately 15 to 20 vertical meters below location Germeringer lake was only after 1970 as a recreation area of the city of Germering is a former bog.

The three-part system of the ground monument is unusual. In the center still rises the western part of a stately, six to seven meter high tower hill, the eastern part of which was probably excavated for material extraction.

In the west a small outer bailey protects the tower hill. This - completely preserved - Vorwerk also has the shape of an almost square tower hill, which rises about five meters above the bottom of the trench. The interior is about one and a half meters lower than the edges of the earth cone.

Both parts of the castle are encircled by a two to three meter deep moat with ramparts and separated by a neck ditch , which apparently belongs to the - perhaps older - moat system of the western part of the castle.

To the east a spacious outer bailey runs down to the foot of the hill. A system of ditches about two meters deep can only be seen in the north and east; the southern part does not seem to have been completed.

Overall, the moats cover an area of ​​approximately 150 × 50 to 60 meters. In the area of ​​the central tower hill, the ramparts curve out to the south.

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a castle stables of the high and late Middle Ages under monument number D-1-7834-0003.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Heinrich Konrad Föringer : The castle stable near Buchheim am Parsberg in the royal district court Starnberg proven as a Roman fortification , in: Oberbayerisches Archiv Nr. 1 (1839), S. 1-14. [1]
• Werner Leitz: Puchheim-Parsberg: The castle stable on the Parsberg at Germeringer See . In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany (48): Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck - Archeology between Ammersee and Dachauer Moos . Stuttgart 2007, pp. 182-184.
• Volker Liedke, Peter Weinzierl: Fürstenfeldbruck district (Monuments in Bavaria, Volume I.12). Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-574-8 .
• Hans H. Schmidt (Working Group for Local History Research in the Würm Region): “Sunken castles” in the five-lake region between Ammersee and Isar - historical and archaeological reconstructions . Gauting 2002.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Parsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.