Saalenstein Castle Stables

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Saalenstein Castle Stables
BurgstallSaalenstein 01.JPG
Creation time : middle Ages
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Köditz - Saalenstein
Geographical location 50 ° 21 '14.7 "  N , 11 ° 52' 4.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '14.7 "  N , 11 ° 52' 4.9"  E
Height: 480  m above sea level NN

The Postal Saalstein is an Outbound castle in Saalstein in the district of Hof in Bavaria .

history

Finds of bronze, Nuremberg pennies and castle ceramics indicate an early settlement. There was a castle here by the 12th century at the latest. The Burgstall, visible today on the steep bank of the Saale, was probably a Vorwerk . It was inhabited, as evidence of broken fragments shows. The actual castle was a few meters to the northwest, where the remains of a round tower can still be seen beyond the motorway . It was surrounded by a dry ditch that ran out on both sides of the slope , which is still clearly visible today. The Fattigsmühle was probably originally another stronghold of the castle: The small Saalenstein. Eustachius von Zedtwitz is said to have converted it into a mill. In 1524 the Saale was the border of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Saalenstein Castle had the meaning of a fort.

present

Today, at the foot of the castle hill, i.e. on the banks of the Saale, there are still some remains of the foundation and a vault driven into the embankment. The federal motorway 72 runs on the Burgberg . The remains of the castle consist of some stone walls behind a still clearly recognizable moat . The site is privately owned and is demarcated with a closed gate. The owner runs a restaurant there and has integrated the remains of the wall of the castle stables into a fantasy-like garden landscape.

literature

  • Karl Dietel : The castle stable Saalenstein . In: Frankenwald - Zeitschrift des Frankenwaldverein eV , issue 1/1952, p. 3 ff.
  • 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. 105.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Saalenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East - Landscape, History, Folkness, Culture, Art. Glock and Lutz Verlag, Heroldsberg 1984, ISBN 3-7738-1017-3 , p. 371.
  2. ↑ burgsaalenstein.de