Weidenstein Castle Stables

Weidenstein Castle Stables
Alternative name (s):	At the Weidenstein
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Gone
Place:	Bad Steben - Thierbach - "Mühlberg"
Geographical location	50 ° 20 '58.7 "  N , 11 ° 40' 2.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '58.7 "  N , 11 ° 40' 2.7"  E
Height:	570  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Weidenstein , also called Am Weidenstein , is a castle stable near Thierbach , a district of Bad Steben in the Hof district .

The castle stable of the summit castle is 570  m above sea level. NN in the southeast of the village Thierbach on the hilltop of the Weidenstein, which drops steeply towards the Froschbachtal and thus offers protection. To the southeast in the direction of the saddle of the Mühlberg, the facility was secured by a still visible neck ditch with an outer wall. Rock debris cover the area. The Burgstall is a destination of the Burgstall hiking trail of the Franconian Forest Association .

The castle was built to secure the border between the domains of Naila and Lichtenberg . In the fief book of 1398 by Johann III. from Nuremberg it was already referred to as the Burgstall.

literature

• Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Naila district . In: The art monuments of Bavaria , short inventories, XVII. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1963, p. 72.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas