Warberg Castle Stables

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Warberg Castle Stables
Burgstall Warberg - stratified water well in the neck ditch (July 2013)

Burgstall Warberg - stratified water well in the neck ditch (July 2013)

Alternative name (s): Wartberg
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, small remains of the wall, fountain
Construction: Ashlar masonry
Place: Neunburg vorm Wald - Warberg - "Warnberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 22 '54.7 "  N , 12 ° 23' 18"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '54.7 "  N , 12 ° 23' 18"  E
Height: 567.2  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Warberg (Bavaria)
Warberg Castle Stables

The Postal Warberg , formerly Wartberg called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on the warning mountain near the district of the city Warberg Neunburg vorm Wald directly on the border with the northern neighboring community Dieterskirchen in Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The site of the former castle is 3700 meters north of the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph in Neunburg vorm Wald or 280 meters north of the hamlet of Warnberg at 567.2  m above sea level. NN high Warenberg . This mountain rises above the valley of the Ascha , which flows around it in the west and in the north. The Warenberg also drops very steeply to the south, and only the east side rises over a saddle just a few meters lower than the castle grounds to the second, 572  m above sea level. NN high summit of the mountain. Further to the east there are a few more, partly even higher mountain peaks. The elongated peak of the mountain is about 180  meters above the valley.

There are several other earlier castles nearby: just 150 meters east of the castle's neck ditch is the Burgstall Bach , a rectangular fortification surrounded by a moat. Today it is heavily overgrown with undergrowth, so that an overview of the complex is difficult. Due to the lack of archaeological evidence, nothing can be said about a possible relationship to Warberg Castle . Four kilometers east of the Warberg castle stables is another abandoned castle, Altenthanstein Castle , a predecessor of the Thanstein castle ruins six kilometers to the east . The Zangenstein castle ruins are also six kilometers to the north-west . In the southeast in the village of Schwarzeneck, 3.5 kilometers away, there was another castle complex , and also 7.7 kilometers away on the Ramberg, the Ramberg Castle , formerly known as Randenberg Castle. To the south-south-west, on a promontory near Neunburg vorm Wald above the valley of the Berglingbach, stood a now unknown castle, now called Burgstall Altenschloss , and in Neunburg, too, there was a castle complex that was later expanded into a castle .

history

The first indirect mention of the castle took place around the year 1138, when Countess Adelheid von Warberg donated her estate near Traitsching to the Ensdorf monastery. Adelheid was the daughter of Heinrich von Limburg , and the granddaughter of Bodo von Pottenstein . Adelheid and her first husband Kuno von Horburg- Lechsgemünd donated further goods in the same year, this time to the Bamberg Church, and around 1140 further donations were made by the nobility comitessa de Wartperch to the St. Michael monastery in Bamberg. After the death of her first husband Kuno in 1139, she married Count Konrad II von Dachau .

The last written mention of Countess Adelheid took place around 1144, after which Count Gebhard III. von Sulzbach made his inheritance claims on the Countess's legacy. Since Count Gebhard III's father, Count Berengar I, was a half-brother of Kuno von Horburg-Lechsgemünd, the Sulzbachers inherited the castle. Adelheid probably had no direct heirs from their two marriages, which is also underlined by the high number of goods bequeathed to various monasteries.

Elisabeth von Sulzbach , the daughter of Count Gebhard III. married Count Rapoto I von Ortenburg around 1159 and received Warberg Castle as a bride present. 1188, after the death of Count Gebhard III. Then her sons Heinrich I and Rapoto II of Ortenburg inherited the Warberg Castle.

The first presumed destruction took place in the war between the Counts of Ortenburg and the Counts of Bogen , Passau, Bohemia and Austria in the years 1192 to 1199. There is no documentary mention of this destruction, but an archaeologically proven horizon of destruction in the area of ​​the castle stalls indicates it.

The castle remained in the possession of the Ortenburgers until 1261, in the same year the son of Count Friedrich von Truhendingen and Anna von Ortenburg , daughter of Heinrich I von Ortenburg, sold Warberg to Duke Ludwig the Strict .

Another archaeologically proven horizon of destruction, which led to the final destruction of Warberg Castle, could be related to the war incursions of the Bohemian King Ottokar II of Bohemia in the second half of the 13th century. But there is no documentary evidence for this either, but the Schwarzhofen monastery not far from the castle is also said to have been destroyed in the course of this war before 1285.

Warberg Castle was already in a desolate state in 1283, as only one field "... ante castrum Warperch" and one forest "... silva in suburbio castri", but the nearby town of Neunburg vorm Wald is in a developed state and is new Official seat was mentioned in the Nordgauische Saalbuch. The castle was therefore given up between 1261 and 1283, perhaps as early as 1278, if the second Bohemian War, and with it the death of Ottokar II in the battle on the Marchfeld that year, was the reason for the abandonment. Up until 1495, the Warbergers were mentioned several times in documents (Balthasar the Warberger zu Kürnberg ), probably a ministerial family that continued to name themselves after the destroyed castle.

Between 1991 and 1993 an excavation was carried out by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , in which some of the course of the wall could be uncovered.

The floor monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as the Warberg Medieval Burgstall has the monument number D-3-6640-0009.

description

From the former 150 by 50 meter castle complex with the Salisch - Staufer curtain wall and stratified water well , only small remains of the wall and the well are preserved. Finds are in the Schwarzachtaler Heimatmuseum in Neunburg vorm Wald.

photos

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View into the neck ditch, on the right the area of ​​the castle. (July 2013)

  • Remains of the castle wall (July 2013)

  • View of the Warberg from the west (July 2013)

  • View of the eastern hill, probably the location of a tower-shaped building (July 2013)

literature

  • Verena Kaufmann: The Warberg castle stable near Neunburg in front of the forest . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 1999, ISBN 3-933474-02-7 .
  • Sixtus Lampl: Monuments in Bavaria, Volume III: Upper Palatinate . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Source history: Verena Kaufmann: The castle stable Warberg near Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 13ff.
  3. ^ Burgstall Warberg on the website of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation