Castle hill in Offendorf
| Castle hill in Offendorf | ||
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| Creation time : | Medieval | |
| Castle type : | Location, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, tower hill | |
| Place: | Ratekau -Offendorf | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 56 '49.5 " N , 10 ° 46' 19.6" E | |
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The castle hill in Offendorf is the remnant of a medieval tower hill castle (Motte) in the village of Offendorf (on Hemmelsdorfer See ) in the municipality of Ratekau in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .
The castle was a moth enclosure protected by a moat . The rest of the castle hill / tower hill is visible - a round elevation approx. 15 m in diameter and approx. One meter high. The rest of the castle hill lies in the middle of a pond (dammed up around 1900) on a farm in the middle of Offendorf - approx. 150 m from the shore of the Hemmelsdorfer See .
The castle was built by the von Buchwald family , who owned Offendorf around 1300.
The rest of the hill / tower hill stands as ground monument under monument protection .
literature
- Harald Gerhardt: The archaeological monuments in the large community Ratekau .
In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 1994, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 28–35.
Web links
- http://www.offendorf-web.com ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 53 kB)