Motte Haidenschloss

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Haidenschloss
Floor plan of the castle stable, 2011.

Floor plan of the castle stable, 2011.

Alternative name (s): Burgstall Rauschenberg
Creation time : probably in the 13th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle, moth in spur position
Conservation status: Core mound, ditch
Place: Gefrees
Geographical location 50 ° 5 '34 "  N , 11 ° 45' 43"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '34 "  N , 11 ° 45' 43"  E
Height: 565  m above sea level NHN
Motte Haidenschloss (Bavaria)
Motte Haidenschloss
The core hill from the north, 2011.

The Haidenschloss , also known as Burgstall Rauschenberg , is a castle stable at the foot of the Rauschenberg near Gefrees in the Bayreuth district in Upper Franconia . The castle stable is freely accessible.

Geographical location

The castle stable of the hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) is located on the southern ledge at the foot of the Rauschenberg in the corridor "Lower Waterfall", district Wundenbach, 565  m above sea level. NHN . The mountain spur is delimited by the course of the Kornbach.

description

On the mountain spur, an approximately 20 × 25 meter, slightly oval, flattened core hill can be seen, with a directly adjacent and up to four meter wide ditch on the mountain side. It gives the impression that it originally went as a ring trench with a gradient around the entire nose of the mountain. Some traces have been destroyed by the construction of today's aqueduct.

history

There is no documentary evidence of this moth . In the land book of Berneck , Gefrees and Goldkronach from 1536 there is the only reference: "... on the way up to the Galgenberg and Kornberg down towards the Haidenschloß ..." It is assumed that the complex was already open at this point in time.

Settlement area

The town of Gefrees is about 1.5 kilometers away and the town of Neuenreuth one kilometer. No direct reference to the settlement can be identified. The old road to Bohemia is about 600 meters north without visual contact.

Political situation

Towards the middle of the 12th century, under the von Waldstein family, the expansion of the country from the east into the source area of ​​the Eger was pushed. It was also the period in which the sphere of influence of the Andechs-Meranian counts spread from the southwest through the takeover of Walpotic property groups into the Fichtel Mountains . The Haidenschloss lies in this border area. From the middle of the 14th century, the area came to the burgraves of Nuremberg .

proof

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation has registered this moth in the Bavarian monument list under the number D-4-5936-0008 as a ground monument .

literature

  • Karl Dietel: Tower hill in the heart of the Münchberger valley . In: Archive for the History of Upper Franconia, Volume 41 . Bayreuth 1961, p. 214.
  • Markus Thoma, Claus Rabsahl, Ingo Sördert: Bad Berneck and Gefrees - A search for traces from the origins to the High Middle Ages . Historisches Forum Gefrees (Ed.), Gefrees 2013, pp. 268–272.
  • Markus Thoma: The medieval fortifications in the area around Gefrees . (Gefreeser Geschichte (n), Heft 5), Historisches Forum Gefrees, Gefrees 2011, pp. 8-10.
  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Published by the district of Bayreuth, Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , pp. 80 and 91.
  • Denis Andre Chevalley, Hans Wolfram, Lübbecke, Michael Nitz: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV. Upper Franconia, Munich 1985.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz, Michael: Landbuch des Amtes Berneck, Gefrees and Goldkronach. In: AO Volume 29. Issue 3, Bayreuth 1926, pp. 88-159.