The castle light stone lies about six kilometers north of Ebern at the edge of the village of the same name on an elongated of the hate mountains.

History

About 500 meters far away from the today's castle an impressive rock castle stable, lies the devil stone, in the forest. Possibly the master seat of the gentlemen from the stone is to be located here to. This service man sex seems to have split up around 1200 into two lines, the stone of light stone and the stone of old person stone (castle old person stone). The devil stone can have been naturally also the seat one the Untervasallen of those from stone, the castle place in the high Middle Ages have anyhow already left.

1232 were mentioned for the first time documentary the castle light stone as well as the neighbour castle old person stone. In the following centuries the light stone developed to a typical Ganerbenburg. i.e. different branches of family and also different families possessed portions and dwellings on the large castle. The attachments were removed - just like those of the other and bambergischen castles of the hate mountains - in the Hussitenzeit (over 1420/30) and furnished for the employment by Feuerwaffen.

In the farmer war 1525 the northern castle part was damaged heavily and came in the consequence to the ruin. The south castle remained to a large extent intact and in the Renaissance to the today's extent was extended.

In 16. Century succeeded it to the family to get the entire castle plant into the hand. 1845 died the last branch of this old sex, the castle finally arrived over the counts von Rottenhan at their free-wonderful relationship. The barons von Rotenhan possess and inhabit the received south castle up to the today's day, the ruin of the north castle left one the Obhut of the district of hate mountains.

Description

The plant presents itself today as double castle, which good-received south castle still inhabited, the ruin of the north castle can against entrance be visited. In place of the formerly existing third Ganerbensitzes the village church, a fourth Ansitz rises lies to southwesthits a corner the Ringmauer since the baroque time (surrounding walls keep partial).

The south castle is to be visited since a change of ownership only from the outside. From the church one can see the large apartment tower with the pre-aged Ringmauer, the interesting building of gates on the eastern side is observable only from the fore-castle. The inner court with its interesting original walk along the battlements is publicly accessible only to special opportunities. The walk along the battlements is to have served the well-known castle researcher Bodo Ebhardt as model for the restoration of the high king castle in the Elsass.

The ruinous north castle is opened on the weekends or after advance notification. Here above all that, false on a rock block built, is Roman donjon and the hussitenzeitliche, "„Pfeilschartenturm "“embossment right parallelepiped tower mentioned as early example of an artillery attachment (hook cans) of interest.

In former times freely accessible north castle was enclosed particularly because of to move the Esoteriktourismus, which had caused already considerable damage to the built volumes. The light stone applies - just like some other castle ruins and rock formations in the hate mountains - in these circles as world culture place, comparably for instance for the external stones or Stonehenge. For a before-medieval use of the plants as cult or victim places however so far no scientific proof could be furnished. Interestingly enough the only plant, with which such a (regional) ritual function is probable, is those of the Esoterik to few considered Veitenstein.

The north castle was investigated in the last years by the office for castle research of the well-known Middle Ages archaeologist Joachim Zeune and reorganized carefully. The round way by the ruin is equipped with several informative diagrams, which numerous information and explanations concerning building history and - details contain.

The castle ruin actual just like the south castle and the castle stable - a station of the Burgenkundlichen of didactic exhibition of the district of hate mountains.

Underneath the castle an interesting rock labyrinth with some caves and Grotten lies.

Literature

• The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria III, 15, office for district Ebern. P. 128-146, Munich 1916
• Joachim Zeune: Castle light stone. Fast & Steiner art leader 2364, Regensburg 1998
• Joachim Zeune: Castles in the Eberner country. Ebern 2003 (Eberner of homeland sheets, 2 booklets)

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