Burgstall Windeck

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Burgstall Windeck
Creation time : Mentioned in the 13th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, ramparts and moats preserved
Place: Burgebrach -Ampferbach- "Eierberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 50 ′ 30.7 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 0"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 30.7 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 0"  E
Height: 342  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Windeck (Bavaria)
Burgstall Windeck

The Postal Windeck is a Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the 342  m above sea level. NHN high "Eierberg" about 850 meters west-southwest of the church of Ampferbach, a district of the market Burgebrach in the Bamberg district in Bavaria .

The castle of the Lords of Windeck was mentioned in a document in 1263 and destroyed in 1525 in the course of the Peasants' War. No remains of the building fabric have been preserved from the former castle complex, only walls and moats are still visible. Today the Burgstall is registered as a floor monument D-4-6130-0036 "Medieval Burgstall" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, pp. 45-46.

Web links

  • Entry on Windeck in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 45 f.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Burgebrach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 146 kB)