Egensbach tower hill

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Egensbach tower hill
Castle site

Castle site

Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill leveled
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Offenhausen - Egensbach
Geographical location 49 ° 26 '38.9 "  N , 11 ° 23' 30.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '38.9 "  N , 11 ° 23' 30.5"  E
Egensbach tower hill (Bavaria)
Egensbach tower hill

The Tower Hill Egensbach is an Outbound medieval motte (moth) at house no. 10 in Egensbach , a modern district of the municipality Offenhausen in Nuremberg County in Bavaria .

An Egensbacher ministerial family appears for the first time in a document from Ulrich Il from 1243. von Königstein where the two brothers Heinrich I and Konrad von Egensbach are named as certified witnesses when the Engelthal Monastery was founded . Around 1300 the Egensbachers were replaced by the Forchheimers zu Offenhausen and in 1339 Marquard von Forchheim also had the manor in Birkensee ( Birkensee tower ). In 1445 a younger Marquard von Forchheim bequeathed the castle seat to Jörg von Mistelbeck the Elder. Ä. zu Lintach, presumably identical to the participant of the same name in the Battle of Hiltersried against the Hussites . Presumably, the castle seat was destroyed in the course of the First Margrave War in 1449 and was attested to being restored in early 1504. In the early 16th century the seat was verifiably lost. The castle seat was mentioned for the last time in 1508 during a change of landownership over Egensbach due to the sale.

In the 1950s, near the Egensbacher Hofstelle No. 401, the remains of a small tower hill, also known as a tower castle , could still be seen directly on the stream , surrounded in the north, west and south by the remains of a rectangular ditch and inner wall. The castle site was destroyed by road construction and the tower hill was leveled.

literature

  • Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia. A complete representation of all palaces, manors, castles and ruins in the Central Franconian independent cities and districts . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0
  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Bertold Freiherr von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . 2006

Individual evidence

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