Burgstall Pfaffendorf

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Burgstall Pfaffendorf
Burgstall Pfaffendorf - View of the Großer Kordigast, the castle site is on the hilltop on the right edge of the picture

Burgstall Pfaffendorf - View of the Großer Kordigast, the castle site is on the hilltop on the right edge of the picture

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Left, neck ditch preserved
Place: Altenkunstadt - Pfaffendorf - " Big Kordigast "
Geographical location 50 ° 6 '37.6 "  N , 11 ° 13' 24.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '37.6 "  N , 11 ° 13' 24.1"  E
Height: 403  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Pfaffendorf (Bavaria)
Burgstall Pfaffendorf

The Burgstall Pfaffendorf is a small, abandoned medieval hilltop castle on a mountain spur of the Großer Kordigast above the Weismain valley . It is located around 1000 meters south of the Catholic branch church St. Georg von Pfaffendorf and around 2450 meters south-southwest of the center of the municipality of Altenkunstadt in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this spur castle , it is roughly dated as medieval . Only a neck moat has survived from the complex . The site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5833-0054: Medieval raised hide at ground level .

description

The small castle site is located at about 403  m above sea level. NN height on a north-northeast facing and around 500 meter long mountain spur of the Great Kordigast, which was protected in the east by the steep drop to the valley of the Weismain and its side valleys, in the north to the valley of the Kapellenbach and on the west side to the Rothental. On the southwest side, the area in front of the system continues as a gently sloping mountain ridge , before reaching up to 535.7  m above sea level. NN high mountain top of the Great Kordigast rises. There the castle was naturally least secure. For this reason, an arched neck ditch was created on this side .

The Burgstall belongs to the type of the one- storey residence , which means that its fortified inner surface is not significantly elevated compared to the foreground, the ridge in the southwest, in contrast to the tower hill . An area only 15 × 10 meters in size was paved; the system looks unfinished.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , p. 121.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Altenkunstadt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 144kB)
  3. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Wanderings in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 121