Hirschstein ruins

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Hirschstein ruins
Preserved wall move

Preserved wall move

Creation time : around 1223
Castle type : Höhenburg, rocky location
Conservation status: Ruin, remains of the wall
Place: Martinlamitzer Forst-Nord
Geographical location 50 ° 10 ′ 40.5 "  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 40.5 "  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 8"  E
Height: 744  m above sea level NN
Hirschstein ruins (Bavaria)
Hirschstein ruins
Tower foundation

The Hirschstein ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle on the Großer Kornberg in the Fichtelgebirge .

location

On the northern route between the station Kirchenlamitz -East and the grain peaks lying rock castle Hirschstein ( 744  m above sea level. NN ). Johann Christoph Stierlein sketched and measured the system in 1783. Even Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht described the ruin. The castle was built on a cliff. A twelve meter long wall of the former main building is visible, which bends at right angles and is six meters long and has been preserved at a height of up to four meters. In addition to other remains of the wall, there are still indications of a wall foundation of a square tower. The main wall consists of roughly hewn and dry offset granite blocks.

The so-called Markgrafenstein, which is located 250 meters north of the ruins on a hiking trail, dates from 1742. As a boundary stone, it marked the border between the margravial area under Friedrich von Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Kirchenlamitz .

The ruin is located in the community-free area Martinlamitzer Forst-Nord in the district of Hof . The next place is Kirchenlamitz in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge.

history

The castle has been documented since 1223, ceramic finds indicate that it was inhabited in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1317, Count Berthold von Henneberg enfeoffed the "five brothers, the Hirzberger, Her Heinrich, Fridrich, Arnolt, Eberhart and Heymann", members of the von Hirschberg family , including the "hus" on the Kornberg. The castle was destroyed in the middle of the 14th century, and the Nuremberg burgrave presumably took action against the residents of the castle to enforce the peace . In 1361 Burgrave Friedrich von Nürnberg allowed the Hirschbergers to rebuild it. Despite multiple permission to rebuild the Hirschstein remained in ruins, the Hirschberg residents relocated to Grünstein Castle . The Hirschstein ruins later served as a control room .

During the Thirty Years' War , the ruins and vaults of the old castle served as a refuge for the rural people. On the orders of the margraves , the vaults were filled in in the 18th century because " gypsies " and "other light-shy rabble" had nested in them. The legend of the "Greifenburg" should refer to the Hirschstein.

literature

  • Werner Bergmann : 750 years of Epprechtstein Castle . Verlag der Stadt Kirchenlamitz / Ofr.
  • Michael Brix , Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Former district of Rehau and town of Selb . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, XXXIV. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1974. p. 42.
  • Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 , p. 270 f .
  • Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht : Ruins, antiquities and still standing locksmiths on and on the Fichtelgebirge. One try. 1795. pp. 69-71. ( online )
  • Reinhard Höllerich : Former district of Rehau and formerly district-free city of Selb . Historical book of place names of Bavaria , Volume 3, Munich 1977. P. 24f.
  • Friedrich von Schönburg-Waldenburg, Rudolf Timper: History of Schwarzenbach an der Saale . Schwarzenbach an der Saale 1908. pp. 13–15.
  • Harald Stark : Castles in the Fichtel Mountains . In: Contributions to the history and regional studies of the Fichtelgebirge . Issue 10. Wunsiedel 1988. pp. 18-20.
  • Dr. Hans Vollet and Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings by the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . 1987.

Web links

Commons : Hirschstein Ruin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Bucka , Oskar Heland : boundary stones - corridor and small monuments in the district of Hof . Hoermann, Hof 1991, ISBN 3-88267-040-1 , p. 65.
  2. ↑ Working group for local history in the Rehau school district ( Oskar Heland and others): Between Eger and Regnitz - legends and stories from the Rehau - Selb area . Selb / Schönwald 1973. p. 3f.