Burgstall Schlossberg (North Halben)

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Burgstall Schlossberg
Alternative name (s): Castle in the north forest
Creation time : Between 1151 and 1154
Castle type : Höhenburg, Spornburg
Conservation status: Departed, received a ditch
Place: Nordhalben - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 22 '20.7 "  N , 11 ° 31' 1.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '20.7 "  N , 11 ° 31' 1.3"  E
Height: 545  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Schlossberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Schlossberg

The Burgstall Schlossberg , originally called Burg im Nordwald, is an abandoned high medieval hilltop castle in the municipality of Nordhalben in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria , Germany . Only a ditch on a rock spur has survived from the complex , the castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5635-0003: "Castle stables of the high and late Middle Ages".

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located in the village of Nordhalben on the Schlossberg in the Franconian Forest , directly above the Rodach valley , around 420 meters east-southeast of the Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomew .

history

The castle in the northern forest, built between 1151 and 1154, was first mentioned in 1154 in a document from Bamberg's bishop Eberhard II von Otelingen . After being destroyed for the first time in 1325, it was rebuilt between 1354 and 1356 by the two border neighbors, Bishop Lupold von Bebenburg and the Vogt von Gera . The castle was devastated again in the Peasants' War in 1525 . The last time the facility was mentioned in 1564, it is unknown when it was finally removed.

description

The castle site, overgrown with a few trees, is located on the Schlossberg at around 545  m above sea level. NN Height above the valley floor of the Rodach on a narrow mountain spur facing southeast, which is limited in the northwest by a stream from the Ziegengrund and in the southeast by a very short stream. The northwest and the southeast side of the castle hill fall very steeply into the deep-cut side valleys, the spur tip falls into several stages to Rodachtal from, there were probably the building of the outer bailey .

The core castle , measuring around 25 × 15 meters, was located at the middle height of the mountain spur on a rocky knoll that rests on the spur and slopes steeply on all sides. A moat was dug on the most endangered side in the northwest, where the crest breaks off with a steep wall and the area in front rises a few meters to the place Nordhalben . This trench, 20 meters wide and six meters deep, was probably created by machining a naturally created railing channel. Remnants of the wall or other traces of building are no longer present.

literature

  • 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, pp. 108-109

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Homepage Markt Nordhalben , accessed on July 24, 2015
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Nordhalben (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)
  3. ^ Source history with a few exceptions: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 109
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 108 f