Burgstall Rauschenstein

Burgstall Rauschenstein
Castle hill of the former Rauschenstein castle stable; behind the bushes is today's cemetery. View from the south from the spur of the Victoria Rock.
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle stable, ditches and remnants of walls have been preserved
Standing position :	Gentry
Place:	Arnstein
Geographical location	50 ° 2 '27.8 "  N , 11 ° 12' 38"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '27.8 "  N , 11 ° 12' 38"  E
Height:	455  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Rauschenstein is an Outbound medieval Spur castle , in the northeast of Arnstein , City Weismain . The remains of the former castle are listed as a protected ground monument by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation under monument number D-4-5933-0084 .

Location and description

The Burgstall with the highest point 455  m above sea level. NHN is located on a mountain spur that is pushed forward about 70 meters to the east over the Kleinziegenfelder valley , which is protected to the east, south and north by steep cliffs. The Victoria rock is located on the southern flank of the mountain spur . A street from the town of Arnstein , which almost reaches the castle stables, ends at a small parking lot in front of the former castle. The local cemetery is located there .

The facility and the mountain spur are separated from the plateau in the west by a former 38 meter long section wall. Inside the wall there is a medieval wall raised with white lime mortar. The northern part of the wall to the left of the cemetery entrance with a height of four to five meters has been preserved. The southern part was removed when the small parking lot was built. Apart from small remains of the moat, nothing can be seen of the castle.

history

Based on the discovery of shards from the Hallstatt period , it is concluded that the site was inhabited and possibly fortified more than a thousand years before the castle was founded.

The castle was probably built in the middle of the 13th century by the Rauschner family and was first described in more detail in the Lindenberg Urbarium of 1410. From 1435 a "Heinrich Rauschner zum Arnstein" has been handed down as lord of the castle. Around 1560 it was owned by Martin von Waldenfels . Old sources suggest that it had been uninhabited since the beginning of the 16th century. Nothing is known about the end of the castle.

In the years 1756/57, the castle chapel of St. Mauritius, which had served as the parish church of the parish of Arnstein in the previous decades, was demolished. The only remains of the chapel are wooden figures in today's church in Arnstein and in the chapel in Eichig . It is not entirely certain whether these are really figures from the former castle chapel.

In 1843 the remains of the castle were still clearly visible.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological forays into Meranierland am Obermain . District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , pp. 133-136.
• Alois Dechant, Gerhard W. Peetz: hiking guide Weismain . Marie Link Verlag, Kronach 2010.
• Georg Söhnlein: Encounter with Franconia, Volume 2 . Heinrichs-Verlag, Bayerische Verlags-Anstalt, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89889-132-5 , pp. 10-11.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Medieval Burgstall ), geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 28, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Söhnlein (2008), pp. 10–11
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Dechant (2010), pp. 52–53
4. ↑ Topographic map of Bavaria - Heideknock (Kleinziegenfelder Tal) , geoportal.bayern.de, accessed on December 28, 2012
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Burger-Segl (2006), p. 134
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Entry on Rauschenstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".
7. ↑ Report on the work and status of the Historisches Verein zu Bamberg 24 (1861), p. 62
8. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of Arnstein , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on April 30, 2016