Wartenfels ruins (Presseck)

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Wartenfels castle ruins
Drawing of the Wartenfels castle ruins

Drawing of the Wartenfels castle ruins

Creation time : between 1323 and 1327
Castle type : Höhenburg in spur location
Conservation status: gone, remains of the tower and moat preserved
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Presseck -Wartenfels
Geographical location 50 ° 12 '34.3 "  N , 11 ° 29' 35.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '34.3 "  N , 11 ° 29' 35.5"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NHN
Wartenfels ruins (Bavaria)
Wartenfels ruins

The Wartenfels castle ruins are the ruins of a spur castle at 490  m above sea level. NHN high hill called Wartenfels 125 meters east of the district of the same name in Markt Presseck in the Bavarian district of Kulmbach . Only the remains of a round tower have been preserved from the former facility .

history

The castle was built by the knight Reiwein von Wartenfels and his two sons Heinrich and Friedrich between 1323 and 1327 with the consent of Bamberg's Bishop Heinrich II von Sternberg . In 1332 they received from Bishop Werntho von Bamberg the economic means to appoint a priest for their castle chapel . In the 15th century they received further ecclesiastical rights in Wartenfels. In 1421, an imperial freedom , which was valid until 1803 , is documented within a defined area around the castle . In 1444 the castle was razed by Nuremberg troops in the course of the Waldenfels feud and destroyed again in the Peasants' War in 1525 .

In 1575 Hans Adam von Waldenfels sold the castle with its farms and estates to Wolf Dietrich von Wiesenthau (councilor and court master in Bamberg ), who already two years later in 1577 sold the manor to the imperial knight Lorenz von Guttenberg . In 1621 it came into the possession of the Bamberg Monastery , which set up an office there. However, the castle buildings were left to decay by the bishopric. After secularization in 1803, the castle first came into the hands of the bourgeoisie in 1806 and then came into the possession of farmers, who removed the castle ruins by 1858 and used the building material to build the castle farmer's house to the west of it.

description

The castle site lies on an east-facing mountain spur, which is bordered on its south side by the Zettlitz valley, in the east and north-east by a side valley and in the north-west by a dry valley . The spur is only connected to the slightly rising plateau to the west, where a deep section trench carved out of the rock was dug . There is a berm on the north and east sides . The castle complex consisted of a slightly elevated core castle and a bailey on a lower plateau south of it. On the northeast corner are the few remains of a round tower .

The place is protected as ground monument number D-4-5734-0016: Medieval Burgstall Wartenfels .

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach . Published by the district of Kulmbach, Neudrossenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033354-5 , pp. 199, 234.
  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia . A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts. Hofmann, Nürnberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , p. 181, 199 .
  • Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Stadtsteinach district . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, XX. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1964, p. 116 f.
  • Hans Seiffert : Wartenfels castle ruins . In: Home calendar for the Fichtelgebirge and Franconian Forest . 1959, p. 74 f.
  • 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. 154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the castle ruins in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ^ Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach. P. 199 and Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Peter Borowitz: Schlösser und Burgen in Oberfranken - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Upper Franconian independent cities and districts , p. 181, 199.
  3. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Upper Franconia. P. 154.
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Presseck (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 134 kB)