Burgstall Schwedenschanze (Cham)

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Burgstall Schwedenschanze
Alternative name (s): Reichsburg Cham
Creation time : around 800
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Margraves, Duke
Place: Cham - old town
Geographical location 49 ° 13 '23.1 "  N , 12 ° 41' 35"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '23.1 "  N , 12 ° 41' 35"  E
Height: 415  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Schwedenschanze (Bavaria)
Burgstall Schwedenschanze

The Postal Schwedenschanze , which is probably around the imperial castle Cham is, is an Outbound Höhenburg ( Wallburg ) on the 415-meter-high gallows 35 feet above the confluence of the Chamb and rain in the district Old Town of the city of Cham in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The oldest castle complex in the Cham district was probably built at the end of the 8th century. Cham Castle was first mentioned in 976 with the retreat of Emperor Otto II. "Ad civitatem suam, quae Camma dicitur" and in 1040 the "castrum Kamb" was the meeting point of Henry III's army . against the Bohemian Duke. The castle was the center of the margraviate of Cham until 1204 and was occupied by castlers from the Diepolding margraves. Then the margraviate and castle passed to Duke Ludwig I and the castle was then given up. Parts of the castle area were used until the 15th century.

description

The 180 by 300 meter large and teardrop-shaped, pointed to the southwest, Burgstall still shows the remains of a ditch , a 50 meter long, 18 meter wide and 7.5 meter high section of the castle wall and an exposed stone cellar. Attached to the castle was an outlying settlement with craft workshops, a church and probably a harbor. The Burgstall is now a ground monument .

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 42-48.

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