The devil stone (also devil stone or lunar caustic) is a high-medieval rock castle stable below the Pfarrweisacher of local part light stone in the Frankish hate mountains.

History

Since the castle stable became to already leave in the high Middle Ages, any documentary proofs are missing to its history.

Some historians locate here the master seat of the powerful family of stone, which around 1200 into the lines the stone to light stone and the stone might have split to old person stone. The Lichtensteiner branch established thereafter the large, above convenient castle light stone, the Altensteiner line to only about 500 m justified about 6 kilometers north on the same elevator comb the castle old person stone. Naturally the devil stone could have been also the seat of a Untervasallen of those by the stone, which were even service men of the bishops of peppering castle.

The devil stone is fortifikatorisch unfavorably because of the slope, which knew small castle easily from the high surface is fired at. The question arises here naturally, why (originally probably noble-free) the castle gentlemen set their Veste not directly on the place of the today's large double castle light stone.

Description

The castle rock is separated mountain-laterally by a flat, today only about a neck ditch deep up to two meters from the Up some further groups of rocks of traces of artificial treatment exhibit, the castle could thus have been originally substantially more extensive. A narrow, bent stair passage, which was secured by two wood doors formerly, forms the stairway on the castle plateau. Probably to the deterrence before the first door a representative guard face was cut into the soft sandstone. The pointed helmet of the guard fits well into the 11. or 12. Century. Such "„fright faces "“are also at other high-medieval castles, the representation might thus no addition from later time be.

In 19. Century one opened castle rock ebenerdig by some eingemeisselte steps, originally was possible the entrance to the stair passage probably only over (about two meters high) wood leaders, whom one could draw into the case of attack easily.

The rock plateau carries clear traces of a substantial covering (bar holes, foundation banks), to the valley side was the group of rocks obviously by a wall closed. Some stairway steps in the proximity of the stairway lead today in emptiness, probably were exaggerated "„the Burghof "“with a timber ceiling, which rested upon this wall. To a stony covering numerous irregular small right parallelepipeds in the surrounding field, the lining up new red sandstone point offered here sufficient building material. The castle rock was surely artificially abgesteilt, which knew resulting stone debris directly is processed. Also in the brick-work of the close castle numerous of these small sandstone right parallelepipeds, which might originally come from the devil stone, put light stone.

The rear (southern) castle rock was accessible and probably by a further secured by small stairs. On entrance rock has itself in, into which soil receive scratched mill board. This mill board - just as the guard head dates - of the castle research as medieval. The today's name of the castle stable stands in direct connection with this play plan. After the castle legend a Lichtensteiner knight defeated the devil here by a ruse at this Spielbrett. The original name of the castle is unknown, whether it concerns the stone of the sex of the same name, can be only assumed.

The castle stable is a station of the Burgenkundlichen of didactic exhibition of the district of hate mountains.

Literature

• Joachim Zeune: Castles in the Eberner country. - Ebern, 2003. (Eberner of homeland sheets, 2 booklets)
• Joachim Zeune: Symbols of power and Burgenkundlicher didactic exhibition of hate mountains. - Hate ford, 1996

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