Burgstall Schlössle (Donnersdorf)

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Burgstall Schlössle
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, neck ditch and wall preserved
Place: Donnersdorf - Falkenstein - "Falkenberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 57 '17.2 "  N , 10 ° 26' 9.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '17.2 "  N , 10 ° 26' 9.8"  E
Height: 375  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Schlössle (Bavaria)
Burgstall Schlössle

The Postal Schlössle is an Outbound medieval noble castle that once stood on a spur of the mountain Falk. The Burgstall is located in the district of Schweinfurt near the Falkenstein district of the Lower Franconian community of Donnersdorf in Bavaria , Germany . Little is known about the castle; only a moat with an outer wall has survived.

description

The site of the former Spornburg is about 900 meters south-southeast of the Church of St. Nicholas in Falkenstein, in the local forest department I, 2a Vorderes Buchhorn at 375  m above sea level. NN height at the spur-like western end of the Falkenberg. The plateau, which is steep to the north and only moderately steep to the west and south, is about 90 meters above the valley of the Hägerngraben. To the east, the terrain rises a few meters to 389.9  m above sea level. NN high summit of the Falkenberg, on this side the castle complex had to be protected by the moat . This trench is about four meters wide and five meters deep from the castle plateau. A wall up to five meters wide and 1.50 meters high is placed in front of the trench. At the southeast end of the complex, this moat bends to the west, and thus also protected part of the south side of the castle.

The usable area of ​​the castle complex was about 30 by 30 meters.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as "Medieval Burgstall Schlössle" has the monument number D-6-6028-0027.

literature

  • 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. 171.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0142-1 , pp. 184-185.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Franconia , p. 171
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Donnersdorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)