Burgstall Rabenstein (Wirsberg)

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Burgstall Rabenstein
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, slope spur
Conservation status: Disappeared, double neck ditch with partition wall preserved
Place: Wirsberg - "Rabenstein"
Geographical location 50 ° 6 '24.7 "  N , 11 ° 38' 32.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '24.7 "  N , 11 ° 38' 32.8"  E
Height: 450  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Rabenstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Rabenstein

The Burgstall Rabenstein is a disused medieval castle complex in the Franconian Forest on a slope spur protruding from the Rabenstein into the Schorgast valley . It is located around 2500 meters east of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of St. John the Baptist of Wirsberg in the Upper Franconian parish of the same name in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle , and there are currently no findings that could date the complex. It is roughly dated to the medieval period. Only a double neck ditch with an intermediate wall has survived from the complex ; today the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5835-0027: Medieval castle stables .

history

The location of the castle away from the medieval traffic routes is explained by the border between the Principality of Bayreuth and the Diocese of Bamberg on which it is located, along the Schorgast . In 1406 the castle nobility was first mentioned with the von Rabenstein zu Wirsberg . The Rabensteiner Schlösslein was a castle estate from Wirsberg that the ministerial family had been given as a fief by the burgraves of Nuremberg this year . In 1489, Kunz von Rabenstein zu Wirsberg was enfeoffed with the castle, but it was already referred to as the castle stables , i.e. destroyed or uninhabitable.

description

The castle stable of the Spornburg is located on a slope spur 30  meters above the valley floor, which extends from 556  m above sea level. NN high Rabenstein extends east into the valley of the Schorgast. It is surrounded on three sides by the river, only the west side merges into the 100-meter-high slope. On this endangered side, a double neck ditch was created with a wall in between. The outer trench is 24 meters long and runs in a straight line from north to south. It used to be up to three meters deep in relation to the area in front of it, but it has now been almost completely filled in due to road construction. The inner, 40 meter long trench is drawn in a semicircle from northeast to southwest, and runs out on the mountain slopes. On the outside, the difference in height to the intermediate wall is 2.5 meters, on the inside to the castle area it is four meters.

The castle area consists of a gneiss rock group, which slopes steeply to the south, east and northeast, has a very uneven, irregularly shaped and unworked surface. The site suitable for construction measures about 6 by 3.5 meters and only offered space for a tower-shaped building. Today there are no more foundations or other building remains.

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach . Published by the district of Kulmbach, Neudrossenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033354-5 , pp. 132 and 183.
  • 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 , pp. 169–170.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 119.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Wirsberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)
  3. ↑ Source history: Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach , p. 132 and Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological expeditions in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages , p. 169 f.
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 119