Burgstall Schlossberg (Kümmersreuth)

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Burgstall Schlossberg
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Disappeared, several section walls and section trenches and probably the basement excavation of a keep preserved
Place: Bad Staffelstein - Kümmersreuth - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '53.4 "  N , 11 ° 5' 18.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '53.4 "  N , 11 ° 5' 18.9"  E
Height: 495  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Schlossberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Schlossberg

The Burgstall Schlossberg is an abandoned medieval castle complex in the northern Franconian Jura . It is located at 495  m above sea level. NN high summit of the Schlossberg , a mountain tongue protruding from the Jura plateau into the valley of the Kümmersreuther trench and a neighboring trench to the west. The castle site is located around 560 meters north-north-west of the Catholic branch church Maria Rosenkranzkönigin von Kümmersreuth or 8.75 kilometers south-south-east of the center of Bad Staffelstein in the Upper Franconian community of the same name in Bavaria , Germany . Only several section walls and section trenches and probably the basement excavation of a keep have survived from the complex . The site is now protected as a ground monument number D-4-5932-0071: Medieval castle stables . Immediately to the west is the Mellaberg fortification, another fortification that was inhabited during prehistory and the early Middle Ages.

history

No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle . Prehistoric and medieval pottery shards were found on the grounds of the castle stables , which are now in the museums of Bad Staffelstein and Bamberg. The prehistoric finds probably come from an earlier settlement or grave complex that was destroyed by the construction of the medieval castle. This castle, as well as the nearby village of Kümmersreuth, which probably goes back to the farm yard of the earlier castle, is traced back to a Kunemund , who came from the noble family von Sonneberg -Giech. On February 2, 1230 Heinrich von Sonneberg handed over the predium [= property] Kumundesrewt to the Langheim monastery , which may have resulted in the castle being destroyed beforehand . The castle was probably rebuilt afterwards, which is also supported by the findings of the terrain with the double section ditch which could have belonged to the later, more strongly fortified castle. The later owner of the castle could have been Konrad von Bunzendorf, on June 7, 1324 he sold twelve fields near the Flegenlohe in Kümmersreuth to the Langheim monastery.

description

The castle stable of the two-part Spornburg is located on a slope spur about 100  meters above the valley floor of the Kümmersreuther trench, which extends from the plateau in a north-northwest direction. Except for the south-east side, the terrain of the castle slopes steeply to the valley, thus protecting the complex from an attack from this direction. The attack side in the southeast was protected at the transition to the plateau by a 70 meter long section wall with a trench . This wall is still four to five meters wide, the trench width is up to seven meters. The jump height, the difference between the crest of the wall and the bottom of the trench, is around 2.5 meters. This so-formed region of the forecastle is about 40 meters after the outer fixing portion by an inner attachment of the core Burg delimited. The inner section fortification is formed from two trenches carved out of the rock with a wall in between. The outer of the two trenches is six meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, the inner one is up to 15 meters wide and five to six meters deep. The dimensions of the core castle are 30 by 15 meters, on its northeast side there is a cellar excavation, presumably from the former keep . Its diameter was five meters.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , pp. 91-93.
  • 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. 160.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Bad Staffelstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 199 kB)
  2. ↑ a b Source: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 160
  3. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 92
  4. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas