Burgstall Stettenburg

Burgstall Stettenburg
Burgstall Stettenberg - ruins of the keep
Creation time :	First half of the 13th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, Spornburg
Conservation status:	Castle stable, little masonry, walls and moats preserved
Standing position :	Presumably the ministerial seat of the Würzburg monastery
Construction:	Buckled and small cuboid masonry
Place:	Volkach - Obervolkach - "Stettenberg"
Geographical location	49 ° 52 '53.9 "  N , 10 ° 15' 9.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '53.9 "  N , 10 ° 15' 9.2"  E
Height:	240  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Stettenburg refers to an abandoned spur castle in Obervolkach . Today the castle ruins belong to the town of Volkach in the Bavarian district of Kitzingen .

Geographical location

The Burgstall Stettenburg is located about 1000 meters northwest of the Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas in Obervolkach on a spur of 273.7  m above sea level directed to the west-northwest . NN high Stettenberg, in the corridor there Dornstück.

The mountain, which is wooded in its northern part and used as a vineyard in the south , is surrounded by the Volkach on the west and south-west sides ; to the east and south-east it is bordered by the valley of the Weidachbach. The castle site is about 30 meters to the west below the summit of the mountain and is protected on three sides by moderately steep slopes and by the Volkach river. Several paths lead from Obervolkach to the former castle.

history

The exact founding date of the castle is not known, when Volkach was first mentioned in 906, neither a village Obervolkach nor a Stettenburg was mentioned. The time of origin is assumed to be in the first half of the 13th century because of the humpback cuboid with a surrounding edge. However, when it was first mentioned in 1225, there were only moats of a castle ( lat. "Iuxta fossatum castri Stettenberg"). It was originally the ancestral seat of the Lords of Stettenberg , fiefdoms of the Würzburg Monastery , among whom the most famous, Eberhard von Stettenberg († 1443), was elected Bishop of Worms in 1426 . They are mentioned in a document from Count Rupert zu Castell , who at that time owned vineyards next to the Stettenburg. In the 13th century there was a mill there , the "molendium sub castro" (mill under the castle).

In 1339 Friedrich von Castell received permission from Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian to rebuild the castle (purkstal zu Stetenberg). The new building was never built because the Würzburg prince-bishop refused to give his consent. Two lords of the castle were later named, who were appointed by Bishop Otto von Wolfskeel . Today the ruin is privately owned. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ruin as a monument under the number D-6-75-174-289, trenches and ramparts are listed as soil monument D-6-6127-0106.

description

The presumably one-piece hilltop castle had a rectangular floor plan that stretched from northwest to southeast. The length of the castle site is about 80 meters, it is 40 meters wide. The most endangered east side of the castle was protected by a neck ditch , of which only remains are preserved on the mountain slopes in the north and south. Much of this trench has been filled in and leveled. Likewise, a wall following the neck ditch on the inside, probably the rest of the collapsed curtain wall , can hardly be seen. The foundation of this curtain wall can still be seen at the northeast corner of the complex. Due to the terrain, the Bering slopes slightly to the west towards the Spornspitze.

Two sloping ditches are connected to the neck ditch to the south and north of the castle grounds . The northern one is two meters deep and five meters wide. The west side of the complex is closed off by a wall that is up to two meters wide and one meter high and runs along it for 20 meters.

On the eastern narrow side, the attack side of the castle, a keep was built , the only structure of the complex that has survived as a ruin. It stands about in the middle of this side, about ten meters behind the neck ditch. The base of this square tower is eight by eight meters, the wall thickness is two meters. From the donjon the rising masonry, built using the clamshell technique , is about four meters high. The outer facing was made from humpback cuboids with a circumferential edge , while small cuboids are pre-blinded on the inside. The infill masonry consists of quarry stone. A slot-like opening through the wall thickness has been preserved.

literature

• Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . 1st edition. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , pp. 305-306.
• Rudi Krauss: Burgstall Stettenburg. Inventory and reconstruction of a dilapidated weir system on the Stettenberg near Obervolkach . Volkach 1982, DNB 881157864 .
• Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 110.
• Björn-Uwe Abels u. a .: Guide to prehistoric and protohistoric monuments. Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, DNB 760046220 , p. 181.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon , 9th volume, p. 32, Leipzig, 1870; (Digital scan)
2. ^ Enno Bünz: Haug Abbey in Würzburg: Investigations into the history of a Franconian collegiate monastery in the Middle Ages , Volume 1, p. 724, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 3525354444 ; (Digital scan)
3. ^ Castell culture trail: Obervolkach , accessed on March 29, 2013.
4. ↑ Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia , p. 305.
5. ↑ Geodata: Monument number D-6-75-174-289 , accessed on March 29, 2013.
6. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Franconia , p. 110.