Burgstall Rothenstein (Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia)
Burgstall Rothenstein | ||
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Burgstall Rotenstein - view from the south |
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Creation time : | Probably around 1200 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
Place: | Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia - Zoggendorf - "Altenberg" | |
Geographical location | 49 ° 52 '11.4 " N , 11 ° 8' 34.3" E | |
Height: | 583.1 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Postal Rothstein is an Outbound hilltop castle on the 583.1 m above sea level. NHN high "Altenberg" about 650 south-southwest of the church of Burggrub near Zoggendorf , districts of the Heiligenstadt market in Upper Franconia in the Bamberg district in Bavaria .
The castle, which was the ministerial seat of the noble free von Schlüsselberg, was built around 1200 and the castle area was first named in 1275. In 1349 the castle itself was named, but it was already destroyed.
Only a moat with a rampart remains from the former castle complex.
literature
- Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Reprint of the 1972 edition. Degener & Co commission publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, ISBN 3-7686-9265-5 , pp. 4-8.
- Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
- 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, pp. 87-88.
- Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 1: The castles of the noble families in the Wiesent area . Verlag EC Baumann, Kulmbach 1953, pp. 26-29.
Web links
- Entry on Rothenstein (Am Schwedenfelsen) in the private database "Alle Burgen".