Burgstall Rottenstein

Burgstall Rottenstein
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Count, Ministeriale
Construction:	Cuboid
Place:	Aidhausen- Rottenstein
Geographical location	50 ° 10 '28.2 "  N , 10 ° 30' 24.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 10 '28.2 "  N , 10 ° 30' 24.5"  E
Height:	410  m above sea level NN

The Postal Rottenstein is an Outbound Spur castle east of the village of the same name Rottenstein, a district of Aidhausen in the Lower Franconian district Haßberge . The fortress was not rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Peasants' War , and today it has disappeared except for the ditch and traces of the terrain.

Geographical location

The ruin is located about 440 meters east of the center of Rottenstein, in the forest at 410  m above sea level. NN on a south facing mountain spur.

Today a hiking trail leads to the Schwedenschanze , an early historical ring wall with a lookout tower, through the ditch of the former castle. The Burgplatz itself is rarely visited.

history

The castle originally belonged to the Counts of Henneberg . Elisabeth von Henneberg was the wife of Count Eberhard von Württemberg , who sold the rule to the Würzburg monastery in 1354 . The Rot (t) enstein subsequently served as the seat of the Würzburg office of Hofheim and Rottenstein , which was destroyed by the rebels in 1525 during the Peasants' War . After the suppression of the revolt, the Würzburgers built a new office building below the castle hill. The castle was abandoned and exploited as a quarry.

In the Middle Ages, the customs officers from Rottenstein sat as servants on the spacious fortress. Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein , a member of this wealthy family, was Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1382 to 1390 .

description

The castle was built on a south-facing foothills of the Haßberge , which was well protected on three sides by the natural steep slopes. Only to the north did the Burgplatz have to be protected from the rising hinterland by a ten meter wide and five meter deep neck ditch . On the west as well as on the east side of the mountain spur this merges into a slope ditch , it is still three meters wide, on the south side even up to six meters and up to 1.5 meters deep, on its outside there is an additional one Outside wall presented. On the south side, an old driveway may open into the six meter wide but strongly flattened section of the ditch. As additional protection, a second, smaller sloping ditch with an outer wall halfway between the castle plateau and the lower ditch was created on the west and east sides.

The castle area was about 80 by 50 meters. A mound of rubble in the middle of the north side of the main castle indicates the location of a square keep , which, with a side length of about six meters, is probably one of the smaller representatives of its type. There are still small remains of the wall in the neck ditch, but the rising masonry has not been preserved, but some sandstone blocks still bear witness to the disappearance of the internal buildings. The water supply probably came from a cistern in the castle courtyard and from the "Eselsbrunnen" on Rennweg .

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval castle stables under monument number D 6-5829-0001.

literature

• Paul Sörgel: The Zollner von Rotenstein and their tribal comrades Lantman, Dinstman, from Fuchsstadt in the Haßberge . Hofheim 1999.
• Paul Sörgel: Rotenstein - castle and office in the Haßberge . Hofheim 1998.
• The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , III. District of Lower Franconia, 5: District Office Hofheim . Edited by Georg Lill and Felix Mader. Munich 1912. (Reprint: Munich 1983, ISBN 3-486-50459-2 , p. 84 f.)
• Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (= Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory. Series B, Volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 91.
• Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 28: Bad Kissingen, Franconian Saale, Grabfeld, southern Rhön . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1975, pp. 104-105.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ Source up to this point: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia. P. 91.
3. ^ Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 28: Bad Kissingen, Franconian Saale, Grabfeld, southern Rhön. P. 104.
4. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.