Burgstall Sandau

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Burgstall Sandau
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: Nagelfluh, tuff stone cuboid
Place: Landsberg am Lech -Sandau
Geographical location 48 ° 3 '50 "  N , 10 ° 52' 47"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '50 "  N , 10 ° 52' 47"  E
Height: 601  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Sandau (Bavaria)
Burgstall Sandau

The Postal Sandau is an Outbound Höhenburg the type of a Turmhügelburg (moth) to 601  m above sea level. NN about 375 meters north of the former Benedictine monastery church in the Landsberg district of Sandau ( Upper Bavaria ) on the Lechleite . The well-preserved high medieval tower hill is interpreted by local research as the residence of a Guelph family of servants .

history

Neolithic finds prove the prehistoric use of the castle area as a settlement. The steep high bank and a northern erosion channel offered welcome protection from floods and enemies, the Lech flowing below rich fishing grounds.

The high medieval fortress above the former Benedictine monastery was probably built in the 12th century as the seat of the Lords of Sandau, who first appeared in written sources around this time (Engelschalk and Heinrich von Sandau). Between 1146 and 1170 there is evidence of a Uldaricus de Santowe who is known as "famulus Henrici Ducis Saxoniae". Sandau should have belonged to Duke Heinrich the Lion at that time.

The Lords of Sandau disappeared from the documents after 1302. It is possible that Konrad der Sandauer (pastor of Schwabhausen) mentioned in 1370 was a descendant of this family of ministers. After Duke Heinrich had relocated the important salt road and expanded the Landsberg castle settlement, Sandau Castle had probably become dispensable.

In 1372/73 and 1388 during the " Swabian City War ", the place Sandau was largely destroyed and abandoned. The residents are said to have settled in the Angervorstadt of the nearby Landsberg. The castle on the Lechleite should have been abandoned by then.

description

The mighty moth tower is protected in the north by a wide erosion channel, which drops about 30 meters to the banks of the Lech. To the south and southwest, an arched neck ditch up to 10 meters wide separates the castle square from the plateau . The depth of the trench is about four meters in the south and about seven to eight meters towards the erosion channel.

The approximately square main castle cone (approx. 40 × 40 m) was partially raised about three meters above the ground level with the trench excavation. To the north, a large pit sloping down to natural ground level marks the location of a building.

The southwestern ditch outlet was possibly secured by a wall. Here a small rock gate from Nagelfluh spans the moat, which would have been an ideal foundation for such a barrier wall. A single tufa block on the castle hill could well come from the medieval complex, but was certainly only placed here in modern times.

From the certainly existing bailey no terrain tracks have received above ground. The area immediately south of the castle stables is partly modern and fenced.

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a medieval castle stable under monument number D 1-7931-0023.

literature

  • Michael Petzet : The art monuments of Bavaria . New episode 5: Landsberg am Lech . Volume 4: Suburban Areas and Incorporated Villages . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-422-00574-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry