Ruin Flügelsberg

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Ruin Flügelsberg
Ruin Flügelsberg - view of the castle rock from the southwest

Ruin Flügelsberg - view of the castle rock from the southwest

Alternative name (s): Winged castle
Creation time : Before 1228
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Weir trenches, remains of a ring wall and other remains of walls
Standing position : Knighthood
Place: Riedenburg -Flügelsberg
Geographical location 48 ° 59 '50 "  N , 11 ° 38' 5"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '50 "  N , 11 ° 38' 5"  E
Height: 470  m above sea level NN
Ruin Flügelsberg (Bavaria)
Ruin Flügelsberg

Flügelsberg Castle, lying in sparse ruins, was the family seat of the Flügelsberg taverns .

Geographical location

The ruins of the former Spur castle is situated on 470  m above sea level. NN above the place Meihern west of the hillside settlement Flügelsberg, a district of Riedenburg , on a rocky knoll that protrudes in a south-westerly direction into the Altmühltal .

history

Philipp Apian : The winged castle and Meihern in the 16th century
Grave plate in the former Johanniterkirche in Altmühlmünster

In 1228, Lutold Schenk von Flügelsberg attested to a document from Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria , probably the earliest mention of Flügelsberg Castle. The taverns of Flügelsberg, which had a pair of wings in their coat of arms, were ministerials of the Counts of Grögling-Hirschberg , who died out in 1305 with Count Gebhard VII. In 1290 the castle was badly damaged in a dispute between the Bavarian dukes between Ludwig the Strict and his opponents Otto , Ludwig and Stephan of Lower Bavaria; Dietrich (I.) Schenk von Flügelsberg supported the latter.

In 1340 (1347?) Elspet, the widow of Dietrich (II.), Left the castle to a third of her daughter Margareta, who was married to Konrad the Muracher . Two thirds of the castle belonged to Dietrich (III.), Under whom the complex experienced its heyday. After his death (1403), the Murach family came into possession of these two thirds in 1410.

As robber barons, the Muracher zu Flügelsberg made the imperial city of Nuremberg an enemy, among other things , by attacking and robbing the Nuremberg merchant trains in the Altmühltal from Flügelsberg. In 1446 Nuremberg took to the field against the "Flügelspurg" and other robber barons' castles in the area; the Flügelsberg Castle and its tower were conquered and set on fire except for the St. Thekla castle chapel .

Later, the Murach people rebuilt the complex and came into the possession of the Parsbergers through marriage - in 1460 and 1480, Murach's daughters married Parsbergers. In the Lion War, these stood on the side of the nobles who rose up against the Duke of Bavaria Albrecht IV . The Bavarian Duke therefore attacked Flügelsberg Castle and conquered it after fierce resistance at the beginning of January 1492. Hans and Georg von Parsberg were captured, the castle was cleared and set on fire.

It was later rebuilt, as shown by views from 1568 and 1701. However, since the 17th century the Parsbergers lived as "Lords of Meyern" at the foot of the Flügelsberg in a meierhof that was converted into a castle ; only insignificant remains of this castle exist. In 1577, with Joachim von Parsberg, the male line died out.

The former castle chapel St. Thekla was renovated in 1680 by Johann Erhard Muggenthal after a long period of deterioration. It was abandoned in the 18th century after a sculptor from Neuburg an der Donau who was not mentioned by name had delivered a crucifix and two altar candlesticks there in 1760 . The castle building on the hilltop in the 16th century collapsed in the 19th century.

The Flügelsbergers were buried in the church of St. Johannes Baptist of the Altmühlmünster monastery , where two of their tombstones from the 14th century have been preserved.

description

View of the castle rock of the winged castle from the west

The ruin of the castle complex, which extends over an area of ​​around 70 × 90 meters, consists of some remains of walls from the 12th and probably the 16th century and three trenches .

literature

  • Friedrich Hermann Hofmann, Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XIII District Office Beilngries. II. District Court Riedenburg. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1908 (reprint 1982), ISBN 3-486-50443-6 , pp. 55-58.
  • Franz Kerschensteiner: Dietfurt ad Altmühl. Treuchtlingen 1999, p. 82f.
  • Anton Mayer: The castle on the mountain. History and stories of Eggersberg and the castle, of Altmühlmünster and Flügelsberg and "Mei Erlehm im Hoiz" in dialect. Tangrintler Medienhaus 2009.

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