Burgstall parish rocks

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Burgstall parish rocks
Creation time : 11th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Disappeared, section wall and neck ditch preserved
Place: Bad Staffelstein - Tiefenthal - "Pfarrfelsen"
Geographical location 50 ° 3 '47.9 "  N , 11 ° 6' 7.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '47.9 "  N , 11 ° 6' 7.5"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Pfarrfelsen (Bavaria)
Burgstall parish rocks

The Burgstall Pfarrfelsen is a small, abandoned medieval hilltop castle on a rock spur above the gorge-like valley of the Tiefentalbach . It is located about 1330 meters east-southeast of the center of Tiefenthal in the municipality of Bad Staffelstein 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, ceramic finds made there date from the 11th and 12th centuries. Only a simple, heavily flattened section wall and a deep neck ditch have survived from the complex. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5932-0073: Medieval castle stable .

description

The rather small two-part castle site is located at about 490  m above sea level. NN on a north-northwest directed rock spur that protrudes into the gorge-like valley of the Tiefentalbach. Except for the south-south-east side, all sides drop steeply and were thus naturally well protected. Only in the south-southeast is the slightly rising Jura plateau with the Hohlen Stein and its linear band-age settlement. The attack side in the south-southeast is secured against the plateau by a strongly flattened section wall with a trench in front . The site of the so attached Vorburg is long for the spur tip through a 15 meters and four to five meters deep moat of the core Burg sealed off.

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. 93.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 93
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Bad Staffelstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 201 kB)
  4. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas (here referred to as a section wall)
  5. ↑ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archäologische Streifzüge im Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages , p. 93