Burgstall Rupprechtsteine

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Burgstall Rupprechtsteine
Alternative name (s): Burgstall on the Rupprechtsteinen
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, wall and moat preserved
Place: Hollfeld - Kainach - "Rupprechtsteine"
Geographical location 49 ° 57 '48.7 "  N , 11 ° 17' 5.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '48.7 "  N , 11 ° 17' 5.1"  E
Height: 420  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Rupprechtsteine ​​(Bavaria)
Burgstall Rupprechtsteine

The Postal Rupprecht stones , as Burgstall on the Rupprecht stones called, is a Outbound medieval hilltop castle just above the valley of the Emperor creek, approximately 650 meters north-northwest of the local part Kainach the town of Hollfeld in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this spur castle , it is roughly dated as medieval, and was possibly a predecessor of the Veste Kainach, today's castle . Only a ditch and an edge wall have survived from the system on a rock spur . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6033-0079: "Medieval castle stables".

description

The now forested castle site in the Schnabelweide corridor is located at around 420  m above sea level. NN Height above the valley floor of the Kaiserbach on a rock spur directed to the west- south- west , which protrudes from the north-west slope of the valley. To the east, the Jura plateau joins, rising slightly , the remaining sides drop steeply, partly vertically.

The castle site, which is only about 30 × 15 meters in size, is divided into two parts; the western half is on a steep rock cliff, the same size eastern half is four meters lower. The castle site is secured against the slightly rising plateau in the east by a section trench, which is around ten meters wide and four meters deep from the outside. The edges of this trench slope steeply and appear smoothed. Above the moat, a rampart runs along the east side of the castle stable, which bends to the west at the south-east corner of the castle site and ends at the cliff, becoming flatter and flatter. Remnants of the wall or other traces of building are no longer present.

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Published by the district of Bayreuth, Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , pp. 178 and 186.
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Reprint of the 1972 edition. Kommissionsverlag Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, ISBN 3-7686-9265-5 , p. 172.
  • 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. 77.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district , p. 207
  2. Jump up ↑ Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland , p. 172 and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 77
  3. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  4. ↑ Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland , p. 172
  5. ↑ List of monuments for Hollfeld (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 150 kB)
  6. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  7. ↑ Source description: Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of the north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland , p. 172 and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early-historical site monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 77