Wernstall
| Wernstall Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Wernstal Castle | |
| Creation time : | Before 1305 | |
| Place: | Gaimersheim | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 48 '43 " N , 11 ° 20' 47" E | |
| Height: | 403 m above sea level NN | |
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Wernstall (also: Wernstal ) is an abandoned castle and settlement near Gaimersheim in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .
location
The settlement was located between Gaimersheim and Eitensheim in the west of the Gaimersheimer Flur in the Retzgraben valley south of the Steinberg, about two kilometers from the Gaimersheim town center, an approximately five-meter-high, flat-vaulted dolomite dome on which one suspects the former Wernstall castle. The district road EI 5 passes to the north and the Ingolstadt – Eichstätt railway line to the south .
history
The castle presumed to be on the Steinberg cannot be documented. The name of the desert, however, underpins the assumption that there was a fortification here: ahd. "Wern" means "defend" and "stall" can mean "Burgstall, Burg". However, the personal name "Warin / Wern" can also have given the name. In any case, early medieval, high medieval and late medieval finds were made here. In the 13th century there is talk of two Wernstaller Huben, i.e. (castle) courtyards. In 1379 Wernstall appears as a settlement. This and the castle were probably destroyed in the Landshut War of Succession in 1504. In 1880 remains of the "castle" are said to have been left; In 1915 the parcel was still called "On the stone wall". In 1953, when the Eitensheim - Gaimersheim water pipeline was being built, “two trenches about five meters wide and two meters deep hewn into the rock” (Chronik, p. 247) of the castle fortifications were cut.
Wernstall is historically important because here, on the border between the area of the Eichstatter bishop and Bavaria, the arbitration court took place on September 23, 1305, which was chaired by Marshal Heinrich von Pappenheim , the likely owner of Wernstall Castle Johann I of Zurich , Bishop of Eichstätt, and the Bavarian dukes Ludwig and Rudolf ended the inheritance of the Count of Hirschberg, who died out with Gebhard VII in the same year († March 4, 1305). It was determined which possessions and rights the respective contract side received from the Hirschberg legacy. The bishop received the more important part (122 localities), the dukes were awarded the county of Sulzbach and the district court of Hirschberg , among others . The contract was signed on October 19, 1305 in Gaimersheim. For the church and the bishopric of Eichstätt, this "Gaimersheim Treaty" was an important step towards the formation of territories.
literature
- Karl Röttel : Landmarks and landmarks in the area of the Eichstätt bishopric. Eastern part . Eichstätt: Association of the Friends of the Willibald Gymnasium Eichstätt e. V. 2004, p. 86
- Gaimersheim . In: The Eichstätter area in the past and present . Eichstätt: Sparkasse 1984, p. 194ff.
- Wernstall . In: Friedrich Kraft (editor): Chronicle of the market in Gaimersheim . Ingolstadt: Verlag Donau Kurier 1984, p. 247f. (For text see [1] )
- Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 29 (1924), p. 49; 45: 82 (1930); 92/93 (1999/2000), p. 291