Burgstall Traunstein

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Burgstall Traunstein
Creation time : Early medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Standing position : Presumably noble gentlemen from Trune
Place: Traunstein
Geographical location 47 ° 51 '42.4 "  N , 12 ° 38' 53.3"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '42.4 "  N , 12 ° 38' 53.3"  E
Height: 610  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Traunstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Traunstein

The Postal Traunstein means a Outbound hilltop castle on 610  m above sea level. NHN in a spur in the Bürgerwald on the southern slope of the valley above the banks of the Traun near Traunstein in the Traunstein district in Bavaria .

history

This two-phase fortification emerged during the early Middle Ages and was built as an oval section fortification with a semicircular wall and ditch system. In 1978 during an archaeological excavation sondage two cultural layers discovered the ceramic case found comes from the Ottoman era.

During the High Middle Ages the spur was fortified again, a castle complex with a core castle and two outer castles was built , which was secured by ramparts up to 150 meters long and steep-walled ditches .

This complex was probably owned by the noble lords von Trune, who also built the Traunstein Castle in the north and now also decommissioned . To the south bordered the area of ​​the ministerial family of the Lords of Surberg, they served the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The former Lenzinsberg Castle and other fortifications around Hochberg also belonged to their property .

Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-8141-0064 "Section fortification of the Ottonian period and castle stables of the high Middle Ages" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: The castles and palaces in the Traunstein district . In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces e. V. (Ed.): Castles in the Alps . (= Research on castles and palaces. Volume 14). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-760-9 , p. 78.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Gotthard Kießling: The castles and palaces in the Traunstein district. In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces e. V. (Ed.): Castles in the Alps , p. 78.
  3. ^ Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 19: Rosenheim, Chiemsee, Traunstein, Bad Reichenhall, Berchtesgaden . 2nd Edition. Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1971, p. 90 ff.
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Traunstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 167 kB)