Ramberg Castle Stables

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Ramberg Castle Stables
Burgstall Ramberg - View of the eastern area of ​​the ring trench (July 2013)

Burgstall Ramberg - View of the eastern area of ​​the ring trench (July 2013)

Alternative name (s): Randenberg
Creation time : around 1270
Castle type : Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Neunburg vorm Wald - Fuhrn - "Ramberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 21 '22.8 "  N , 12 ° 17' 19.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '22.8 "  N , 12 ° 17' 19.7"  E
Height: 513  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Ramberg (Bavaria)
Ramberg Castle Stables

The Postal Ramberg , even edge mountain called, is a Outbound hilltop castle on the hilltop of Ramberges over the Auerbachtal. It is located around 1560 meters north-northeast of the Catholic branch church St. Peter and Paul in the Fuhrn district of the city of Neunburg vorm Wald in the Schwandorf district in Bavaria . Only a ring wall and a ring moat have survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6639-0015: Medieval castle stables .

history

The castle, of which little data has been saved, was probably the seat of the noble Vurdoner or Vurdenar family. 1265-1268 a Heinrich Vurdenar is a vassal of the counts of Ortenburg-Murach named as owners and about 1270 is in Urbar called a Castrum Randenberch. From 1344 to 1444 the castle was owned or partially owned by the Zenger family .

description

The castle site is located on the up to 513  m above sea level. NN high, wooded hilltop of the Ramsberg, which drops steeply down to the south-southwest side into the valleys of the Auerbach in the east and in those of the Kanauerbach in the north and west. To the south-south-west, this mountain top is joined by a saddle a few meters lower , which in turn is 509  m above sea level. NN knoll of a tree-free plateau follows. The plateau-shaped dome, up to 46 meters long and up to 25 meters wide, is surrounded by an oval ring wall. This wall, about eight meters below the plateau, is still around two meters high and is followed by a moat on its inside . On the inside of the ring moat, the remains of a ring wall were still visible in 1975 ; today, apart from two round, funnel-shaped hollows on the respective narrow sides of the castle plateau, no traces of construction have survived.

literature

  • Sixtus Lampl: Monuments in Bavaria, Volume III: Upper Palatinate . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .
  • 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. 288.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Neunburg vorm Wald (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 173 kB)
  2. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  3. ↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 288