Burgstall Vestenberg
| Burgstall Vestenberg | ||
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 Burgstall Vestenberg - View of the main castle (February 2012) |
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| Creation time : | High Middle Ages | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Wiesenttal - desert stone | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 51 '30.2 " N , 11 ° 15' 27.8" E | |
| Height: | 430 m above sea level NN | |
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The Vestenberg Castle Stable is a presumably high medieval aristocratic castle near the parish village of Wüstenstein in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in Bavaria , Germany . The castle is almost completely gone, only very few remains in the area testify to it.
Geographical location
The castle stable of the Spornburg is located in the central area of Franconian Switzerland , part of the Frankenjura low mountain range , at about 430 m above sea level. NN height at the top of a mountain spur , north of the confluence of the dry valley called Steingraben into the valley of the Aufseß . The mountain spur extends from the plateau to the south-south-west and is bounded on the west side by the Aufseß and in the south-east by the stone ditch. The place of the lost castle is about 50 meters above the valley and about 950 meters north-northeast of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Wüstenstein or about 21 kilometers northeast of Forchheim .
There are other former medieval castles in the vicinity, in the nearby Wüstenstein are the remains of the castle of the same name and the later Wüstenstein Castle , which was largely demolished in the 20th century and to which there was direct visual contact from Vestenberg Castle. Up the Aufseßal there is an unknown castle stable at 458.5 at Heckenhof and there was also a knight's seat in Heckenhof itself. The castles Unteraufseß and Oberaufseß stand a little further .
Down the Aufseßal, about halfway between the villages of Seelig and Gösseldorf , there was another noble residence of the single-storey type.
History of the castle
There are only a few documented mentions of the castle, which was only located in 1942 by the Nuremberg castle researcher Hellmut Kunstmann. It was the subject of a court of arbitration in Kersbach near Forchheim between the Burgrave of Nuremberg and the Bishop of Bamberg , when the Nuremberg castle Vestenberg was built on Bamberg territory. In the text of the complaint it says: “Item also my lord Burggraue handled his diner dorczu and said that she opened a castle facing the desert stone over in my lord of Bamberg and the monastery land and rule, called vestemberg, which should not be "That happily and uncomfortably happened to my Lord of Bamberg, and history," it was a robbery by the Burgraves of Nuremberg against which the Bamberg bishop lodged a complaint. A very similar process took place in the nearby Ailsbach valley around Rabenstein Castle , when the Bamberg diocese built or wanted to build the Alte Veste and another castle, today's Hohenloch Castle, in the Nuremberg area .
After the agreement, Vestenberg Castle was probably razed, because in a partition contract of January 19, 1536, in which Joachim von Aufseß was awarded the Wüstenstein Castle, Vestenberg was only mentioned as abandoned: “Wüstenstein opposite the Vestenberg, because it was a castle before should be and an apartment existed ”. On January 25, 1543, Joachim was enfeoffed by the margraves , the successors of the Nuremberg burgraves, with Wüstenstein and Vestenberg, possibly a reconstruction of the castle was planned, but this did not happen.
Current condition
The place of the abandoned castle is densely wooded, only a wall of the former outer wall of the castle has been preserved. The freely accessible Burgstall can be reached from Wüstenstein on a hiking trail in the Aufseßal.
The ground monument , registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as “Castle Stables of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era”, bears the monument number D-4-6133-0130.
description
The former hilltop castle is located at the top of a mountain spur that drops steeply to the west, south and southeast into the valley and merges into the plateau to the northeast. On this side, the castle was protected by a currently only very shallow neck ditch and a section wall, an outer wall bending at an obtuse angle.
The area of the two-part spur castle is roughly mushroom-shaped and divided into the former location of a bailey and that of a very narrow but long main castle that was at the tip of the spur.
The diamond-shaped outer bailey was about 50 by 20 meters and was bordered on the attack side by a nine-meter-wide wall. The wall runs from the southeastern slope of the spur to the northwest and then bends at an obtuse angle to the west. It now has a maximum height of 1.8 meters on the outside, over the area of the outer bailey it is only 1.2 meters. In the core of the wall, Kunstmann discovered a stone wall 1.5 meters thick. At the northernmost point of the wall there is a passage, which is probably the original entrance to the castle. The wall was probably flanked on the western side by a gate tower, remains of the foundation can be seen. On the south-eastern side of the wall, the traces of a strongly flattened outer trench can still be seen, which was in front of the wall. The area of the outer bailey is very flat with no traces of former buildings.
The rectangular main castle was separated from the outer castle by a natural depression and was about two meters higher than the outer castle. It was on a dolomite rock and was about 25 meters long and only seven meters wide. There are also no building remains of the main castle.
literature
- Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 2000, ISBN 3-7686-9265-5 , pp. 122-124.
References and comments
- ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6133 Muggendorf
- ^ Location of the castle stable in the Bayern Viewer
- ^ Burgstall Wüstenstein on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ^ The Burgstall on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ The lost knight's seat on the side of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ The one-storey residence on the side of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Source history: Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of northwestern and northern Franconian Switzerland, pp. 122–124
- ^ The Burgstall Vestenberg on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Source description: Hellmut Kunstmann: The castles of north-western and northern Franconian Switzerland, p. 123 ff.
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