Burgstall Zangenfels

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Burgstall Zangenfels
Burgstall Zangenfels - northwest corner of the keep ruins (July 2014)

Burgstall Zangenfels - northwest corner of the keep ruins (July 2014)

Creation time : after 1354
Castle type : Höhenburg, slope spur
Conservation status: Burgstall, ruins of the keep
Standing position : Nobles, Count
Place: Nittenau -Dürrmaul- "Jugenberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 10 '55.8 "  N , 12 ° 13' 4.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '55.8 "  N , 12 ° 13' 4.3"  E
Height: 520  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Zangenfels (Bavaria)
Burgstall Zangenfels

The Postal pliers rock is an Outbound hilltop castle on 520  m above sea level. NN near the district Dürrmaul of the city of Nittenau in the Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf in Bavaria .

history

The castle was built in 1354 or shortly thereafter by the Lords of Zenger . Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg had enfeoffed Ortlieb Zenger and his heirs with the "mountain under the youth" in the court of Regenstauf with the stipulation that a castle be built there. A Hans Zenger appears in 1400 when his cousin Peter the Fronauer pledged half of the Schwärzenberg Castle to him. The brothers Friedrich and Hans die Zenger zu Zangenfels donated an anniversary on December 6, 1411 for their late father Wolfhart in the Schönthal monastery . After the death of Hans Zenger, the elector Ludwig V gave the sons Sigmund Zenger zu Trausnitz and Tristan also Zangenfels as a fief. They owned the castle until 1515. The Zenger was followed in 1519 by Kaspar Erlbeck zu Trausnitz. The next owner was Jobst von Dandorf zu Forchtenberg . This united Zangenberg with Hof . Then the Zangenfels Castle began to fall apart. From 1801 the Burgstall Zangenfels was owned by Wilhelm Carl Graf von Eckart.

description

The Burgstall is located on the southern slope of the Jugenberg on a small hillside spur. The slopes of the summit drop steeply on three sides and partly interspersed with rocks to the valley. To the north, the castle area slopes down with a two to three meter high edge, at the foot of which there is only a very shallow ditch . The ditch is then followed by a level surface before the slope of the Jugenberg up to 613  m above sea level. NN height increases. On the very small castle area with the dimensions of 20 meters in east-west direction and around 35 meters from north to south there is the ruin of a keep in the north with a base area of ​​8.2 by 8.2 meters and a wall thickness of three meters. The size of the interior is only about one by one meter. This tower consists of two-shell masonry, the outer facing shows layered block masonry with blocks of different sizes, some of which are very large. The masonry joints have been pinched out with smaller stones in several places. This outer facing has only been preserved on the north and west sides, the two remaining sides only show the infill masonry. The inner facing consists of small, roughly cuboidal stones. No other buildings have been preserved from the complex.

The castle site is now protected as a ground monument number D-3-6839-0003: Medieval castle stables "Zangenfels" .

literature

  • Ursula Pfistermeister : Castles of the Upper Palatinate . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1974, ISBN 3-7917-0394-3 , p. 99.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - floor plan lexicon . Special edition, Flechsig Verlag, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-88189-360-1 , p. 683.
  • Ingrid Schmitz-Pesch: Roding. The Wetterfeld and Bruck nursing offices . (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Altbayern issue 44). Commission for Bavarian History, Michael Lassleben Verlag, Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7696-9907-6 , pp. 302–303.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ a b c Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages - Floor Plan Lexicon , p. 683
  3. ↑ a b Ursula Pfistermeister: Castles of the Upper Palatinate , p. 99
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Nittenau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 143 kB)