Birkensee tower hill

Birkensee tower hill
View of the tower hill from the northeast (May 2013)
Creation time :	13th Century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower hill, rampart and moat
Standing position :	Ministeriale
Place:	Offenhausen - Birkensee
Geographical location	49 ° 26 '26.2 "  N , 11 ° 23' 48.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '26.2 "  N , 11 ° 23' 48.1"  E
Height:	455.2  m above sea level NHN

The Tower Hill Birkensee is an Outbound medieval motte (Motte) in the corridor hell approximately 70 meters south of the present Hofgeländes at Birkensee , a modern district of the municipality Offenhausen in Nuremberg County in Bavaria .

history

It is assumed that the ministerial seat was created around 1250 through a division of ownership of the Egensbach manor ( Egensbach castle seat ), which is indicated by the old Egensbach settlement structure and pathways. For the first time in 1260 the knight Konrad von Birkensee, probably identical with Konrad von Egensbach, called Vogelhunt, brother of Heinrich von Egensbach, named himself after the castle seat. In a document from Ulrich Il. von Königstein named the two brothers Heinrich I and Konrad von Egensbach as certified witnesses when the Engelthal Monastery was founded . After the castle seat came to the Forchheimer zu Offenhausen family after the death of Konrad von Birkensee or a son of the same name around 1300, who had also acquired the Egensbacher manor, in 1339 a Marquard from Forchheim zu Egensbach also appeared as a Marquard Forchheimer zu Birkensee. In the 14th century the castle seat was given up and the farm was given to a farmer. In 1508 the Einödhof Birkensee was part of the sales volume of the Egensbach manor.

description

From the former castle complex on the lower western slope of the wedge on a rectangular area of ​​about 15 by 5 meters, the tower hill with a deeper upstream area bordered by a ditch and a wall flanking to the northwest has been preserved. The function of the castle, which is also referred to as a tower castle , was probably a status symbol, as its small size and location do not reveal any defense-related value.

and display information about the image

View of the tower hill in the center of the picture from the northeast. To the right of this is a ditch with an outer wall. (May 2013)

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . Altnürnberger Landschaft, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 , pp. 41–42.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birkensee at herrensitze.com
2. ↑ Entry on Birkensee Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".