Black Geis castle stable

Black Geis castle stable
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Wilhelmsthal- Steinberg- "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	50 ° 17 '10.8 "  N , 11 ° 21' 49"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '10.8 "  N , 11 ° 21' 49"  E
Height:	400  m above sea level NHN

The Postal Black Geis is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the 400  m above sea level. NHN high Schlossberg on the northern outskirts of Steinberg, a district of the Wilhelmsthal community in the Kronach district in Bavaria .

1150, along with the lords of Steinberc , the castle nobility is named, which indicates that the castle was built in the 12th century. Around the year 1200 the castle hat went to the Lords of Ahorn.

Nothing has been preserved from the former castle complex.

literature

• Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
• 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. 109.

Web links

• Entry on Schwarze Geis in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 109