Burgstall Schauerstein

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Burgstall Schauerstein
Creation time : High medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, neck ditch and a moat preserved
Place: Velburg -Wüstung Schauerstein in the Hohenfels military training area
Geographical location 49 ° 16 '51.4 "  N , 11 ° 44' 7.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '51.4 "  N , 11 ° 44' 7.9"  E
Height: 580  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Schauerstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Schauerstein

The Postal Schauerstein is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on a mountain spur, about 7050 meters north-northeast of the municipality Velburg in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria . Today it is located within the Hohenfels training area and is therefore rarely visited.

The castle was probably founded by the Loterbeck in the 13th century and was in ruins by the 16th century at the latest. Today only the ruins of a 17th century chapel, which was built on the site of the former castle chapel, and a moat are preserved. The site is listed as soil monument number D-3-6736-0047: Medieval castle stables and D-3-6736-0080: Archaeological findings and finds in the area of ​​the St. Maria (Maria Schnee) chapel ruin, formerly the castle chapel on the Schauerstein, including the traces Protected from previous buildings or older construction phases as well as an early modern hermitage .

history

Schauerstein Castle was built in the 13th century, the builder was Ulrich Loterbeck. This Loter dynasty or Loterbecken came from the village of Loderbach north of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and was first mentioned in the documents in 1180 with a Heinrich Loter . Their ancestral seat was probably in the area of ​​the local church of Loderbach, in addition to these two castles, they also sat temporarily at Weidenwang Castle south-southeast of Freystadt , Velburg , Rothenfels Castle and Haimburg Castle . The lottery pools served the Bavarian dukes and were thus in the rank of imperial ministerial .

The Schauerstein castle was first mentioned in 1282, when Ulrich Loterbeck was the owner of the facility as Lotter von Schauerstein. In 1297 Ulrich sold his “Purg ze dem Schaunstein” to the Regensburg Monastery , and immediately afterwards it reinstated him as castle keeper . In 1342 two canons were appointed by the bishopric, and they were required to build 60 pounds of Regensburg pfennigs into the castle. The castle was apparently damaged at this point. From 1369 the castle changed hands frequently, so the Radmannsdorfer, the Auer von Regensburg and the Rornstetter von Rohrenstadt (Oberrohrenstadt) are called.

In the first half of the 16th century at the latest, the castle was no longer habitable, because in 1533 it was referred to as the "desolate Schauerstein castle". The place was still inhabited, at that time there was a hermitage that was built by the Regensburg Cathedral Chapter . The hermit was still in the hermitage until the end of the 19th century, when it was abandoned, but could still be seen.

In the 17th century, the chapel of St. Maria was built in place of the former castle chapel, from which remains of the outer walls one to two meters high have been preserved.

description

The castle site is about 580  m above sea level. NN height on a mountain spur protruding to the north, which drops steeply on three sides. To the south it rises to the mountain top at 594  m above sea level. NN height continued, so that this side had to be specially protected. The 45 meter long and 38 meter wide castle area was fortified on this side by a ditch with a wall. It was followed by a ditch that delimited a 17 by 10 meter core castle . The chapel and the hermitage are leaned against the mountain spur.

literature

  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , p. 106.
  • Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , pp. 219-220.

Web links

  • Entry on Schauerstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Velburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 167 kB)
  2. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 220
  3. ^ Source history: Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district , pp. 61 ff. And 106
  4. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  5. ↑ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  6. ↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 219 f.