Oberweißbrunn double tower hill

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Oberweißbrunn double tower hill
Double tower hill Oberweißbrunn - view of the two tower hills (April 2013)

Double tower hill Oberweißbrunn - view of the two tower hills (April 2013)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, double tower hill castle
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Bischofsheim in the Rhön - Oberweißbrunn - "Hagküppel"
Geographical location 50 ° 24 '16.6 "  N , 9 ° 56' 48.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '16.6 "  N , 9 ° 56' 48.2"  E
Height: 693.1  m above sea level NN
Double tower hill Oberweißbrunn (Bavaria)
Oberweißbrunn double tower hill
Photo 3: View of the northern hill (April 2013)

The double tower hill Oberweißenbrunn is an Outbound medieval motte (moth), which once stood on the two hilltops of Hagküppels. The Burgstall is located in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in the district of Oberweißbrunn in the Lower Franconian community of Bischofsheim in the Rhön in Bavaria , Germany . Little is known about the castle, only several walls and ditches have survived from the double castle stables, and the complex was severely disrupted by recent road construction.

Geographical location

The site of the former hilltop castle is located about 500 meters southwest of the Catholic Curate Church of St. Vitus and St. Antonius Eremita in Oberweißbrunn, in the municipal forest districts VII and VIII Haag, on the north at 688.5  m above sea level. NN and the southern at 693.1  m above sea level. NN height of the two peaks of the Hagküppels. The mountain, which stretches from north to south, drops only moderately steeply in all directions by around 90  meters in altitude into the surrounding valleys, including the Brend and the Ziegelhüttengraben.

There are other former medieval castles in the vicinity: The Osterburg castle ruins are located about 2500 meters to the southeast . A little further in this direction is the Altenbrenda castle stable near the village of Unterweißbrunn. 4300 meters to the west are the ruins of Rabenstein Castle , 11.4 kilometers to the southwest are the ruins of Werberg Castle , both in the Wildflecken military training area .

description

The two naturally formed peaks of the Hagküppel are separated from each other by a saddle about 50 meters wide , from which the castle hills rise about 20 meters further. The earlier entrances to the facilities also led from there. The northern hill, which is roughly round in shape, is surrounded by a three-meter-wide terrace around five meters below the summit plateau (Fig. 3). This is probably an earlier ring moat that ran around the castle hill and was later filled. The usable area on the plateau was 18 meters in diameter and is surrounded by a two meter wide and still 0.30 meter high wall (Fig. 2).

The southern hill, with a pear-shaped floor plan, has the same structure and the same dimensions as its northern counterpart. At this hill, however, the remains of a rampart are still preserved in the south and in the west, which was formerly placed in front of the moat, and which now borders the terrace. The habitable area on this plateau is also oval in shape, and stretches roughly from northwest to southeast.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as a "medieval double tower hill " bears the monument number D-6-5525-0004.

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Figure 2: View of the surface of the northern hill. (April 2013)

literature

  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 161.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0142-1 , p. 99.

Web links

Commons : Oberweißbrunn double tower  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Franconia , p. 161
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Bischofsheim an der Rhön (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 157 kB)