Burgstall Wagesenberg

Burgstall Wagesenberg
Burgstall Wagesenberg - View of the large tower hill from the west
Creation time :	Highly medium-sized
Castle type :	Hilltop castle, spur position, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Pöttmes- Wagesenberg
Geographical location	48 ° 34 '14.8 "  N , 11 ° 3' 30.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '14.8 "  N , 11 ° 3' 30.3"  E
Height:	510  m above sea level NN

The high medieval castle stables Wagesenberg is located immediately south of a large early medieval hill fort in the “Schanze” forest section near Wagesenberg (Markt Pöttmes , Aichach-Friedberg district , Swabia ).

description

The northern rampart of the outer bailey from the eastern rampart of the neighboring early medieval hill

The mighty tower mound (Motte) of the core castle rises today directly above the local road to Stuben . The oval earth cone is about 40 meters long at the base and is accompanied by a shallow moat in the southwest. On the plateau, a large and deep material pit marks the location of the former superstructures.

A low, angular moat can be seen about 300 meters northwest of the tower hill. The approx. 250 meter long rampart is interpreted as the remainder of the outer ramparts . In the east, the outer bailey of the high medieval castle borders directly on the four meter high outer bailey of the neighboring early medieval hill. The area around the bailey was changed significantly in the 19th and 20th centuries by removing material.

Such hill-towers are interpreted in this area more as seats of the lower or service nobility . However, the unusual size (length about 350 meters) of the castle in the Ebenrieder Forest speaks in favor of assuming the residence of a more powerful man here.

The "Civitas Purgeka"

In 1977, Rudolf Wagner (see lit.) equated Count Berthold von Burgeck's long-sought castle with the large ramparts north of the tower hill castle. Count Berthold appears in several documents between 1104 and 1123. The castle of this dynast is referred to in contemporary sources as "civitas Purgeka" and localized by older research at Berg im Gau . So it must have been a larger, “city-like” facility.

The large hill fort ( Schanze Wagesenberg ) north of the cut in the terrain, which Wagner favors as the location of the Grafenburg, however, corresponds in its overall layout to comparable large castles from the early medieval era. The unusually powerful front wall should be referred to as the Hungarian Wall (10th century). The tower hill castle, however, would fit very well into Berthold's time. Such moths emerged in Central Europe mainly between the 11th and 13th centuries. Wagner sees in the tower hill castle only the location of the associated farm yard of the count castle. In view of the size and conception of the castle complex, however, this seems rather unlikely.

The name of the nearby hamlet of Wagesenberg could be derived from the Latin name "vicus Perge". This hamlet is said to have been near the Count's Castle.

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the tower hill as a medieval castle stable under monument number D 7-7432-0017.

Recent investigations have shown that the location of the Civitas Purgeka zu Wagesenberg has so far been incorrectly defined.

On the basis of three documents

• Traditional certificate of the Scheyern Monastery No. 5d,
• Document of King Henry V from 1107 and
• the records of the monk Conrad von Scheyern from around 1220,

Elli Wolf proves (see literature) that Berthold von Burgeck (Burg Eck) had his residence next to Berg (today Ilmberg near Lampertshausen) ["... iuxta eandem civitatem positum ..."] and not next to Berg im Gau near Lampertshofen, as before Are defined. The three towns of Lampertshausen, Berg and Eck named in the documents are all about 3 km apart and Scheyern (where Countess Haziga lived, who made a joint donation with Berthold von Burgeck) is only 5.5 km von (Ilm) -Berg, exactly as stated in the old documents. There is also documentary evidence of a noble seat in Eck bei Lampertshausen in 1220.

The new orientation of the “Civitas Purgeka” at Eck near Lampertshausen should therefore be well-founded and conclusively proven and the interpretation “Wagesenberg” near Pöttmes in the Aichach-Friedberg district can no longer be maintained.

The origin of Countess Haziga von Scheyern, the ancestral mother of the Wittelsbach family (see literature), can only be elucidated by her only documented relative, namely Count Berthold von Burgeck . As explained above, Berthold's previously incorrectly assigned seat blocked all possible connections to the places Scheyern , (Ilm) -Berg and Lampertshausen, which had significant effects on the investigations into the origin of the Wittelsbachers, because this erroneous definition of the entire group of people in the questionable environment had not yet been taken into account.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Rudolf Wagner : Count Berthold and the Civitas Burgeck . In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia, 71 volume. Augsburg 1977, pp. 89-108.
• Elli Wolf : New orientation of the Civitas Burgeck . In: Upper Bavarian Archive, Volume 134, Munich 2010.
• Elli Wolf : The roots of the Wittelsbacher , Scheyern 2006.

Topographical survey

• Erwin Keller: An early medieval castle on the Wagesenberg near Pöttmes . In: Aichacher Heimatblatt, 21. Aichach 1973. (Schanze and Burgstall)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Monumenta Boica X, p. 389
3. ^ Bavarian Main State Archives, Munich, Kaiserselekt No. 436
4. ^ Bavarian State Library, Munich, Clm 1052