Schwedenschanze tower hill (Burghaig)

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Schwedenschanze tower hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill, moat
Place: Kulmbach -Burghaig- "Metzdorfer Gründlein"
Geographical location 50 ° 7 '22 "  N , 11 ° 24' 41.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '22 "  N , 11 ° 24' 41.6"  E
Height: 350  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Schwedenschanze (Bavaria)
Schwedenschanze tower hill

The tower hill Schwedenschanze is an Outbound medieval Höhenburg the type of a Turmhügelburg (moth) to 350  m above sea level. NHN in the Metzdorfer Gründlein about 1500 meters north-northwest of Burghaig, a current district of Kulmbach in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria .

The tower hill and parts of the outer trench are still preserved from the former moth enclosure.

history

Not much is known about the small tower hill castle, which despite its name has nothing to do with the Swedes, it was probably the ancestral seat of the Lords of Haug (= Burghaig). These were first mentioned in 1183 and were ministeriales of the Counts of Andechs-Meranien and later of the Counts of Orlamünde when they inherited the rule of Plassenberg. The Haugers are mentioned in 1183 as Houga , 1207/18 as Havge , around 1218 as Hawe , 1221 as Hage , 1222 as Houge and 1231 as Hauge , after which they disappeared from the documents for 39 years . It was not until 1270, 1295 and 1306 that Heinrich Hauger reappeared in the records; at the time he was judex , i.e. judge of the Plassenberg rule under the Orlamündischen counts. In 1372 the Hauger von Rotenstein were in the service of the Lords of Schluesselberg . According to records in the Landbuch der Herrschaft Plassenberg from 1531, it was the Hauger who Otto III. von Andechs-Meranien have murdered, but this probably belongs more to the realm of legends.

In 1376 the castle was owned by the von Künsberg family .

In 1398, the castle site is only mentioned as a castle stables in the land register of the Plassenberg rulership .

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. 118 and 156.
  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 , p. 291 .
  • Hellmut Kunstmann : Castles on the Upper Main - With special appreciation of the Plassenburg . Verlag EC Baumann, Kulmbach 1975, p. 162.
  • 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. 111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ground monuments in the district of Kulmbach on the site Landschaftsmuseum.de
  2. ^ Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach , p. 118
  3. ^ Source history: Hellmut Kunstmann: Burgen am Obermain - with special appreciation of the Plassenburg , p. 162