Wildberg ruins (Haßberge)

Wildberg ruins
Creation time :	12th century, Burgadel first mentioned in 1123
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle ruins
Standing position :	Count
Construction:	Ashlar masonry
Place:	Sulzfeld Forest
Geographical location	50 ° 14 '21 "  N , 10 ° 25' 2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '21 "  N , 10 ° 25' 2"  E
Height:	455  m above sea level NN

The Wildberg ruins are the remains of a high medieval aristocratic castle that was once located directly on Rennweg at 455  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur. The castle ruin, of which only very little building structure has survived , is located east of the hamlet of Lindleshof in the community-free area of Sulzfelder Forst in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria , Germany . Little historical information is known about the castle, only small remains of the wall, several ditches and a wall have survived.

history

The castle, which was founded during the 12th century, was the ancestral seat of the noble family of the same name. The gentlemen, possibly also Counts von Wildberg , ruled a Untergau of the eastern grave field (grapfeld orientalis), which comprised part of the Haßberge and the Heldburger Unterland . During the Main Franconian settlement of what is now southern Thuringia , their rule also extended to the neighboring areas of Hildburghausen , Römhild , Rodach and the Coburg region , until they were pushed back to their ancestral territory in the Haßbergen by the regional powers that were emerging there. The Wild Berger for the first time in 1123 on their castle in documents mentioned. By marriage, they were related to the Counts of Henneberg , particularly the Henneberg- Aschach line. In 1293 Konrad von Wildberg transferred the bailiff's rights to the monastery Sankt Johanniszelle unter Wildberg , a Cistercian or Benedictine convent below the castle, which was endowed with further resources and rights by the Wildbergen. The family died out around 1368.

Wildberg Castle had previously fallen to the County of Henneberg . As part of the New Rule , it was part of the legacy of the Henneberg regent Jutta von Brandenburg. The husband of their daughter Elisabeth, Count Eberhard II of Württemberg , sold the castle to the Würzburg monastery . The castle was used as the official seat of the Hochstift ( Amt Wildberg ). In 1525 the castle was destroyed in the Peasants' War and not rebuilt.

In 1977 the vaults were uncovered and secured. More recently, the Sulzfeld community and the state forestry company in Bad Königshofen have carried out a number of safety measures and also set up new information boards. Today the ruin is owned by the Free State of Bavaria .

The architectural monument, which is recorded today by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as the Wildberg castle ruins, wall remains and cellar vault of a late medieval complex , is also a ground monument listed as a high, late medieval and early modern castle ruin "Wildenburg" .

description

The former spur castle is located on a spur of the Großer Breitenberg that protrudes to the west , the north, west and south slopes of which drop 200 meters steeply to the valley. Since it was naturally very well protected on these three sides, only the main attack side of the castle had to be secured in the east by three ditches and a wall. The total area of ​​today's castle stables is around 180 by 40 meters.

A first neck ditch was dug 170 meters east of the spur tip , it is still about ten meters wide and four meters deep today. A second section trench runs ten meters further west across the ridge, it is still 20 meters wide and six meters deep. Between this and the third trench, which again follows ten meters away, there is a ten-meter-wide wall, which was created from the excavation of the second and third trenches. The third trench is eight meters wide and four meters deep. In it, two brick supports of the former bridge to the main castle area are visible.

The area of ​​the main castle is about 100 meters long and 40 meters wide, here are the remains of the vault of a cellar and other wall remains that are about 1.5 meters thick and 2.5 meters high. The core area of ​​the castle was additionally secured by a four-meter-wide and up to two-meter-deep slope trench that ran around the spur tip.

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literature

• Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03516-7 , pp. 452-453.
• Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Palaces and castles in Lower Franconia - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts . Hofmann Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-87191-309-X , p. 215.
• Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 166.
• Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 28: Bad Kissingen, Franconian Saale, Grabfeld, southern Rhön . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1975, pp. 105-106.

Web links

Commons : Ruine Wildberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wildberg ruins on hassberge-tourismus.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage of the Haßberge Nature Park. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 25, 2013 ; Retrieved March 22, 2013 . 
2. ^ Anton Rahrbach, Jörg Schöffl, Otto Schramm: Schlösser und Burgen in Unterfranken - A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Lower Franconian independent cities and districts , p. 215
3. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, Series B, Volume 6), p. 166