Burgstall defiant emperor

This article explains the defense tower Trutziger Kaiser in the Upper Palatinate, there is another Trutzkaiser on the Gaisberg near Heidelberg .

Burgstall defiant emperor
Site plan to the defiant emperor on the original cadastre of Bavaria
Alternative name (s):	Trutzkaiser
Creation time :	medieval castle stable
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Place:	Kirchenreinbach - Etzelwang
Geographical location	49 ° 32 '11.2 "  N , 11 ° 35' 15.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '11.2 "  N , 11 ° 35' 15.1"  E
Height:	536  m above sea level NHN

The Postal defiant Emperor , also Trutzkaiser called, was a tower of the castle Rupprechtstein . It is located in the Kirchenreinbach district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Etzelwang in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria . It is located 100 meters south-east of Rupprechtstein Castle and approx. 850 m south-west of Kirchenreinbach. It is listed by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments under monument number D-3-6435-0046 as the "medieval castle stables". and is registered in the soil monuments of the Etzelwang municipality.

history

Nothing is known about the origin of this defensive tower; one can assume, however, that the Lords of Rupprechtstein in the 13th century as the builders of Rupprechtstein Castle should also be addressed for this upstream tower.

literature

• Walter Heinz, Ernst Dörr: The "defiant emperor". In: Altnürnberger Landschaft eV, messages from the working group for home care and local research in the districts of Erlangen, Hersbruck, Lauf and Nuremberg. Nuremberg, October 1999.

Web links

• Entry on the Rupprechtstein ruin in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burgstall "Trutziger Kaiser auf BayernAtlas , accessed on August 1, 2020.
2. ↑ Soil monuments of the Etzelwang community , accessed on August 1, 2020.