Only about 150 meters beside the old person castle (old person stone) the castle stable old person castle lies over a tiny lake in Frankish hate mountains between old person stone and light stone. The small castle plant belongs today to the Gemeindegebiet of Maroldsweisach. From official side as earlymedievally dated barrier plant however also a high-medieval aristocracy seat could have been. As is the case for many barrier castles and castle stables any documentary proofs and other sources are missing also here to the time position and history.

Description

The castle uses in the northwest the steep waste of one, about five to seven meters of high sandstone formation at the slope of the Gehrenberges, which rises here after southeast only easily. The semicircular castle area is separated by up to two a meter high barrier with submitted ditch from the slope. The inner surface of the two-piece plant amounts to approx. 70 x of 120 meters. The barrier pulls itself in the northwest the slope down to the lake, is a ditch pre-aged also here. The inner surface of the fore-castle is strongly fissured by some deep pits.

The main castle (approx. 30 x 60 m) is appropriate for two to four meters increased in the kind of a tower hill (moth) in northwesthits a corner. Northwest the external barrier is here in such a way led around around the rock plateau that between them an about 8 meter broad neck ditch results.

The castle was measured 1970 by the Bavarian national office for thank mark care (Eugen Ixmeier) and taken up topographically. The Planaufnahme was published 1979 (to Abels, see literature).

Literature

Uwe Abels: Pre and earlyhistorical area monuments of Lower Franconia. (Material booklets to the Bavarian prehistory, row B, volume 6). - 1979

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