Troßberg Castle Stables

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Troßberg Castle Stables
Burgstall Trossberg - neck moat of the castle, on the left the castle area

Burgstall Trossberg - neck moat of the castle, on the left the castle area

Alternative name (s): Trossberg, Trosberg
Creation time : High Middle Ages
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Construction: Ashlar masonry
Place: Pilsach - Langenmühle
Geographical location 49 ° 20 '8.9 "  N , 11 ° 31' 59"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '8.9 "  N , 11 ° 31' 59"  E
Height: 536  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Troßberg (Bavaria)
Troßberg Castle Stables
View of the castle hill from the southeast. On the left edge of the picture the village of Danlohe, on the right the Langenmühle

The Troßberg castle stable is the remnant of a high to late medieval aristocratic castle that once rose on a mountain spur about 55 meters above the valley floor of the Pilsach. The castle stable of the Spornburg is located north of the village of Tartsberg , immediately west of the Langenmühle in the municipality of Pilsach in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria , Germany . Only the impressive neck moat and a few remains of the foundation wall have survived from the former district castle .

Geographical location

The site of the former castle is located on a mountain corner of the Schweinberg, surrounded by the upper reaches of the Pilsach, in the central Franconian Alb , a low mountain range in the western Upper Palatinate and in Franconia. This mountain corner forms a rocky spur that descends steeply to the valley, which advances in a south-easterly direction into the Pilsach valley and turns into a plateau on the north-west side. The complex was naturally well protected on three sides, only the north-west side had to be secured by a ditch that was probably mostly naturally created.

The Burgstall is located about 800 meters south of the Herz Jesu chapel in Eispertshofen , or about 200 meters west-southwest of the Langenmühle in the Pilsach valley.

There are a few other former medieval castles nearby, just a few kilometers to the southwest is Pilsach Castle and a little further a castle stable on the 588 meter high Ottenberg, which was the older Pilsach Castle. Another castle in this direction is the Wolfstein castle ruins , 5.5 kilometers away , of which some remains have been preserved. To the south is the lost seat of the Frickenhofer, the Burgstall Frickenhofen , to the east near Hillohe on the 626.6 meter high Dietrichstein there is another castle stable, presumably the castle Thierenstein or Thierstein, today also known as Schweppermannsburg. To the north, near Unterried, was the aristocratic seat of Freyenried, of which only a few remains of masonry are visible, and 6.4 kilometers to the northwest, the Haimburg castle ruins can be visited above the town of the same name.

history

During the High Middle Ages Troßberg Castle was the seat of the bailiffs who ruled the Litzlohe Office, which later became the Pfaffenhofen Care Office. This office consisted of land owned by the Regensburg monastery Sankt Emmeram .

The earlier magistrates were the Counts of Kastl , followed by the Wolfstein family . The Bailiwick of Litzlohe then passed to the Dukes of Bavaria at the end of the 13th century. They installed their ministerials as bailiffs at the castle.

In 1293 a Konrad Senfft is recorded at the castle. They sat at the Pilsach moated castle from around 1322 . One year later, in 1294, “ Rudigerus dictus Furhenriet ” ( Fürnried in the municipality of Birgland ) is sitting in the castle. This magistrate testified for Seyfried Schweppermann .

The last safe owner of the castle is Heinrich der Zenger in 1377, this Bavarian ducal ministerial family also sat at the Velburg and Lutzmannstein castles (today a castle stable in the Hohenfels military training area ). Later another magistrate can be proven, namely in 1487 an Albrecht "Ratz von Freyenried" ( Unterried ), they were a sideline of the Ratz von Eismannsberg .

Current condition

Today the area of ​​the former castle is densely overgrown by high forest, only the neck ditch, a slope ditch with an outer wall and some traces of construction on the castle plateau have survived. The freely accessible Burgstall is located on the “Felsen- und Kreuzwanderweg” between Danlohe and Scheemühle.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as "Medieval Burgstall" Troßberg "" bears the monument number D-3-6635-0007.

description

The mountain spur on which the Burgstall is located drops steeply to the valley on three sides (Fig. 1), and on the northwest side merges into a plateau that is at the same height as the Burgplatz. This side is secured by a mighty neck ditch (Fig. 2 and 3), which is slightly curved outwards and runs from the eastern to the southern mountain slope. An outer wall is no longer visible on the plateau, but the neck ditch on the southern steep drop is continued several meters as a slope ditch to which an outer wall was placed (Fig. 4). On the east side of the castle site, a step in the terrain is visible on the slope (Fig. 5), which perhaps served as a kennel , possibly the entrance to the castle was located here.

The Burgplatz itself is located on a triangular rock plateau that has a truncated cone shape. The plateau drops almost vertically towards the neck ditch, the remaining sides are formed by steep slopes, partially interspersed with rocks. The plateau is completely flat on its surface, traces of buildings are numerous as smaller and larger hollows and as hills recognizable (Fig. 6). A slightly larger pit in the western part of the area is certainly the remains of the cellar of a larger building, a small, funnel-shaped depression could possibly mark the plates of a cistern (Fig. 7). Another building stood at the southern tip of the facility (Fig. 8), here a few remains of the foundation wall have survived, which probably belonged to a tower-shaped building. A larger ashlar is still visible from it (Fig. 9).

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View of the neck ditch and the castle stable from the north

  • View into the neck ditch, on the right the castle area

  • Sloping moat with outer wall on the south side of the castle site

  • Ramp-like terrain on the east side

  • Surface of the castle stable

  • Possible place of a cistern

  • Location of a building at the southern tip of the facility

  • Wall block of a building

literature

  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , p. 122.
  • 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 , p. 194.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the castle stable in the Bayern viewer
  2. ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6635 Lauterhofen
  3. ^ The Burgstall Ottenberg on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  4. ^ Burgstall Schweppermannsburg on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  5. ↑ Information board at the Burgstall
  6. ^ Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district, p. 123
  7. ^ Source history: Herbert Rädle: Castles and castle stables in the Neumarkt district , p. 122
  8. ^ The Troßberg castle stable on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation