Burgstall Rauhenstein

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Burgstall Rauhenstein
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, section moat with outer wall preserved
Place: Presseck - Schlackenreuth - "Rauhenstein"
Geographical location 50 ° 13 '34.9 "  N , 11 ° 35' 46"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '34.9 "  N , 11 ° 35' 46"  E
Height: 555  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Rauhenstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Rauhenstein

The Postal Rauhenstein denotes a Outbound medieval Spur castle on the "rough Stone" approximately 450 meters east-northeast of the town center of slag Reuth , a district of Upper Franconia market Presseck in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this hilltop castle , it is roughly dated as medieval. In 1885, the complex was examined by Pastor Vollrath from Presseck, and prehistoric ones were investigatedShards found, their whereabouts today are unknown. The section moat with outer wall is still preserved from the former castle complex. The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5735-0012: "Medieval castle stables".

description

The castle site is located 555  m above sea level. NN height is on a south-west facing Diabass spur above the confluence of the Rauschbach and the Pfarrgrundbach to the Schlackenmühlbach. Except for the northeast side, the mountain spur drops steeply over rocks to the valley, and was therefore naturally very well protected on these sides. In the northeast, the castle site is adjoined by a slightly rising mountain ridge, which then goes up to the so-called "height" at 677  m above sea level. NN increases. Only on this side did the former castle complex have to be additionally secured by artificial approach obstacles, for this a semicircular section trench was created, which ends in the steep slope at both ends. Its length is about 30 meters, its upper width about six meters. In addition, an outer wall was placed in front of this trench, which reached a height of 1.2 meters, measured from the bottom of the trench to the crest of the wall. The rocky and relatively flat, possibly artificially worked surface of the castle stables is 2.5 meters above the bottom of the trench and is only about eight by six meters in diameter. Remnants of the walls of the former castle have not been preserved.

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. 193 and 219.
  • 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. 152.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 152
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Presseck (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 134 kB)
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 152