Burgstall on the Lohberg

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Burgstall on the Lohberg
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Buttenheim - Gunzendorf - "Lohberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 48 '38.6 "  N , 11 ° 5' 53.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '38.6 "  N , 11 ° 5' 53.1"  E
Height: 440  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall am Lohberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall on the Lohberg

The Postal am Lohberg is an Outbound hilltop castle on the eponymous Lohberg ( 440  m above sea level.  NHN ), about 1,500 meters east-northeast of Gunzendorf , a district of the Upper Franconian municipality Buttenheim in Bamberg district in Bavaria . Nothing is known about the history of the castle complex.

description

The castle site lies on a spur of the Lohberg protruding to the southwest, halfway up the slope of the Kautschenberg. As a result, it is naturally protected on three sides by the steep slope of the site; the system only had to be reinforced on the northeast side, as the area in front of the castle rises a few meters to the summit of the 500-meter-high Kautschenberg.

The two-part castle area is roughly in the shape of a rectangle, it is divided by a section ditch with an outer wall into a smaller area at the peak of the spur and an area on the mountain side , probably used as a bailey . The two sides to the northwest and southeast are protected by a berm in addition to the steep slope . The most endangered side in the northeast is sealed off by a neck ditch that is up to three meters deep and extends to the two sides of the slope. There are two overburden mounds there.

The Burgstall is registered as a ground monument D-4-6132-0093 "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, p. 50

Web links

  • Entry on Gunzendorf 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 site monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 50
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Buttenheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)