Burgstall Stauf

Burgstall Stauf
Image 1: View into the trench section (December 2013)
Alternative name (s):	Staufenberg
Creation time :	High medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, ring wall and section ditch preserved
Place:	Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate - Stauf - "Staufer Berg"
Geographical location	49 ° 15 '44.1 "  N , 11 ° 25' 31.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '44.1 "  N , 11 ° 25' 31.4"  E
Height:	512  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Stauf or Staufenberg is the remnant of an abandoned high medieval castle. It is located above Stauf , a district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , on the summit plateau of the Staufer Berg . Only a few historical dates of the castle nobility from the late Middle Ages are known of the complex. No building structure has been preserved from the castle itself, only a ring wall around the entire plateau and a mighty section ditch that divided the summit plateau can still be seen. This high medieval castle complex could possibly have been built in place of an older fortification.

Geographical location

Photo 2: View of the Staufer Berg from the south (December 2013)

The castle site is located in the central area of ​​the Frankenjura low mountain range , at 512  m above sea level. NN high Staufer mountain , an oval and east-west facing Zeugenberg . The free-standing mountain drops steeply about 80 meters on all sides  .

The Burgstall is located around 730 meters west-southwest of the local church of St. Walburga in Stauf or around 3100 meters southwest of downtown Neumarkt in the Stauf district.

There are other former medieval or prehistoric castles in the vicinity: around 3.1 kilometers north-northwest of the castle site is the Pölling Castle near Rittershof. The Heinrichsbürg castle ruins are located about 4.9 kilometers to the north on a hilltop of the Schlossberg, and the Wolfstein castle ruins are six kilometers to the northeast . There was also a castle in Neumarkt, today's Count Palatinate Palace . There was direct eye contact from Stauf or Staufenberg Castle to Mönning Castle, 8.4 kilometers to the south-west, which is now Möningerberg Castle Stables .

A very large prehistoric ring wall is located on the Buchberg to the south, another prehistoric and prehistoric fortification, which also had a castle in the Middle Ages, was located above the town of Deining , about nine kilometers to the southeast. Another castle site was 9.3 kilometers to the east, the Rothenfels castle stable near the place of the same name.

history

To date, no information is known about the castle on the Staufer Berg, also called Staufenberg in earlier documents . Only the Burgadel was mentioned in 1410 with a Staufer von Staufenberg, she was then married to Friedrich von Raitenbuch. The Raitenbucher family of ministers who served the diocese of Regensburg also built Hohenfels Castle and Ehrenfels Castle . Even Albert III. von Stauffenberg , bishop of Regensburg from 1409 to 1421, belongs to this family.

Presumably the Hans and Dietrich von Staufenberg mentioned in 1424 and 1427 also belonged to this castle nobility. The high medieval castle could probably have been built in the area of ​​an earlier ring wall. When the castle was built, the ring wall was used and the section ditch was created.

Today the former castle is registered as a ground monument D-3-6734-0038 "Medieval Castle Stables" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

The castle is located on the oval summit plateau of the Staufer Berg (Fig. 2), which is surrounded by a ring wall. The wall lies about eight meters below the plateau of the mountain and forms a ditch to this mountain top as an additional obstacle to approach. Today the wall is still up to 2.5 meters high, but in some places it is completely flattened and eroded into a slope terrace (Fig. 4 and 5). The best-preserved areas are on the northeast side (Fig. 6) and the western tip of the mountain (Fig. 7), on the southeast side the wall is almost completely exposed today (Fig. 8). The hilltop, which rises steeply from the ring ditch formed in this way, is divided into two parts by a section ditch about eight meters deep and straight from north to south (Fig. 1, 3 and 9) into a slightly larger western and an eastern area. It also pierces the ring wall on the north side (Fig. 6). At the northern (Fig. 10) as well as the southern end of this trench, overburden mounds are visible, the northern one being rather smaller and the northern one being rather large.

The high medieval castle stood on the approximately 80 by 50 meter large area on the west side, to the east of the moat there was possibly a bailey . The relatively flat terrain of the castle, which only slopes slightly towards the edges, no longer shows any special features or traces of former buildings, only on the edge of the slope in the south a barely recognizable step could indicate this.

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Image 3: View of the south-east corner of the main castle, to the right of the trench and the area of ​​the outer castle, to the left of the ring wall. (December 2013)

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  Image 4: Heavily eroded section of the ring wall on the northwest side of the mountain cone (December 2013)

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  Photo 5: Section of the ring wall flattened to a terrace on the southwest side of the mountain cone (December 2013)

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  Fig. 6: The ring wall section pierced by the trench on the north side of the mountain cone, on the right the ascent to the outer bailey area (December 2013)

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  Figure 7: Section of the ring wall at the western tip of the mountain cone (December 2013)

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  Photo 8: Eastern tip of the outer bailey, on the left the ring wall is exposed (December 2013)

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  Figure 9: Profile of the trench section, view to the north (December 2013)

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  Photo 10: Northern overburden mound of the section trench (December 2013)

literature

• Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt approx. 2001, ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , pp. 111–113.
• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , pp. 205-206.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Stauf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 206.
2. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
3. ^ Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district , p. 112 f.
4. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 206.
5. ↑ List of monuments for Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 149 kB)