Castle stable Wieseck

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Castle stable Wieseck
Alternative name (s): Old fortress,
old fortress
Creation time : before 1159
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, rubble walls, ditches
Standing position : Ministerialenburg
Place: Kinding - Erlingshofen
Geographical location 48 ° 59 ′ 50 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 21"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 50 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 21"  E
Height: 480  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Wieseck (Bavaria)
Castle stable Wieseck

The Wieseck castle stalls are the northern of the two former spur castles of Erlingshofen in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt in Germany .

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located 720 meters north-northeast of the Catholic branch church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary of Erlingshofen on a north-east facing 480  m above sea level. NN high tongue of the Niefanger mountain. The spur is protected in the west by steep terrain to the Kerntal, a side valley of the Anlautertal through which the Hafenbrunnenbach stream flows .

history

In the vernacular, the Burgstall is called "old fortress", and on land maps from the 19th century you can find the similar name "old fortress"; the "new" castle was Rundeck or Stossenberg Castle, built in 1381 on the foundation walls of a previous castle .

The castle occupants are first mentioned by name in the 12th century. In 1159 a Gottfried I. von Erlingshofen and his knight and ministerial Helmwich appear in a document . This "Helenwicus" is attested together with another ministerial named Rüdiger (I.) 1166 in a bishop's charter, both with the designation of origin of "Erlingshouen". They were servants of the noble free from Erlingshofen and Arnsberg , who moved Erlingshofen to Arnsberg in the second half of the 12th century and later named themselves after Heideck . The Erlingshofer entered the service of the Counts of Hirschberg ; When the Hirschbergs died out with Count Gebhard VII in 1305, the castle came to the Eichstätter bishop. According to the Pontifical Gundekarianum , the castle was destroyed under the reign of Bishop Philipp von Rathsamhausen (1305-1322) after Rüdiger III. (Rüdlin) von Erlingshofen had got into an argument with him - because of assaults and presumptions that have not been recorded in detail. 1312 "Rüdlin von Erlungshofen" reconciled with Eichstätt; The episcopal condition, however, was neither to rebuild the castle nor to sell the castle stables to third parties. In 1332 Rüdlin sold the castle stables to the Eichstätter bishop himself, namely to Heinrich V. Schenk von Reicheneck . In 1372, the Eichstätter Bishop's Chair was confirmed by a judgment of the Hirschberg Regional Court to the Berg and Burgstall Erlingshofen . The “old fortress”, which was called “Wieseck” in the geographical, statistical-topographical lexicon of Franconia by Johann Kaspar Bundschuh at the latest in 1801 , remained in ruins; any masonry was lost over time.

It was not until 1414 that the Erlingshofer received their own manorial property again with Bechthal Castle - today a ruin - until Christoph von Erlingshofen, mentioned in 1539, died out.

description

Only ditches and rubble walls have survived from the former spur castle . Today's ground monument clearly shows a division into the main and outer bailey , which are separated from each other by a moat dug into the rock. The roughly rectangular outer bailey protected the oval main castle from the hinterland. The castle entrance was located in the southwest of the complex and was secured by a square building immediately to the east of the entrance and a round tower to the north of it. The entrance to the main castle was secured by a keep , which is recognizable to the east of the former gate through a high cone of rubble. The not very large Palas , the main residential building of the castle, was probably on the western side of the castle. On the northwestern hilltop, about a third of the main castle was separated by a transverse wall. Since there are no rubble walls in this area, it is assumed that only wooden or half-timbered buildings stood here.

literature

  • Helmut Rischert: The new Erlingshofen Castle . In: Erlingshofen. 25 years of the “Rundeck” local history association . Hercynia-Verlag, Kipfenberg 1996, pp. 28-32.
  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 88-90.
  • Felix Mader (arr.): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office . Munich 1928, reprint Munich / Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1982, pp. 103-105.

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