Burgstall Rothenbürg

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Burgstall Rothenbürg
Creation time : First mentioned in 1332
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Tirschenreuth - Lengenfeld near Tirschenreuth
Geographical location 49 ° 51 '21 "  N , 12 ° 17' 30.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '21 "  N , 12 ° 17' 30.4"  E
Height: 531  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Rothenbürg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Rothenbürg

The Burgstall Rothenbürg describes an abandoned hilltop castle in the Lengenfeld district near Tirschenreuth in the Upper Palatinate town of Tirschenreuth in the Tirschenreuth district in Bavaria . The Burgstall was probably built in the 12th century in the early days of the settlement of the regio egere .

history

The Burgstall was first mentioned in 1332 in connection with the second Lengenfeld feud . The area was part of the Diepolding donation from 1135 to the Reichenbach monastery . The Lengenfeld feud was about a dispute between the Waldsassen Monastery and the Lengenfelders. Heinrich von Lengvelt had pledged Lengenfeld and Rothenbürg to his brother-in-law Dietrich Protschrein and had to redeem them back to the monastery after the arbitration ruling by Ortlieb des Zengers , Chunrad des Smidgadmer and Gotfried Cleistentaler. In 1337 the same Vogt was appointed to Rotenpuerge as to Lengenfeld, namely Otto Trautenberger zu Reuth .

The Burgstall is located on a wooded knoll 250 meters north-northeast of the center of Rothenbürg immediately above the village and can be reached on a path. The rock group located here was surrounded on all sides with a wall and ditch, which was partly unnecessary in the south due to the steep slope. In the west there was another ditch and a wide wall in front of it. A berm is in front of the rock group on the southern slope . Access to the rock group is from the west. The plateau on the rock group has been artificially created and has shallow pits. In 1823 there was talk of a ruin Rothenbürg, today there is no more rising masonry. High medieval ceramics were found in the area of ​​the castle .

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 194–196). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .