Burgstall Hochstein (Thyrnau)

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Burgstall Hochstein
Alternative name (s): Hochreit
Creation time : High or late medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location, ground floor residence
Conservation status: Disappeared, remains of ramparts and moats preserved
Place: Thyrnau - Buchsee
Geographical location 48 ° 35 '6.8 "  N , 13 ° 32' 10.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '6.8 "  N , 13 ° 32' 10.8"  E
Height: 410  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Hochstein (Bavaria)
Burgstall Hochstein

The Postal Hochstein , as Hochreit called, is a Outbound high or late medieval hilltop castle on the northern edge of the valley of the Danube at Buchsee , in the municipality of Thyrnau in the district of Passau in Bavaria .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle, Alexander Erhard suspects that Puchsee Castle is here. The castle site is roughly dated as high or late medieval . In the place of the later castle there was a late Neolithic hilltop settlement of the Cham culture . Only a rampart and a moat have survived from the small castle. The site is protected as soil monument number D-2-7447-0009 "Hill settlement of the late Neolithic (Chamer group) and castle stables of the high or late Middle Ages (" Hochstein "or" Hochreit ")”.

description

The wooded castle site, which belongs to the type of ground-level residences , is located about 500 meters southwest of Buchsee at 410  m above sea level. NHN height on a south-facing spur of the terrain, which drops very steeply to the south about 100  meters into the valley of the Danube. This forms the border with Austria there . The east side is bounded by a steep and deep indented valley of a nameless brook, the west side is also protected by the steep slope of the slope on the so-called Kernmühlleite of the Danube valley, into which a small notch valley has also cut. To the north, the area in front of the castle area rises slightly into a plateau at 521  m above sea level. NHN high Koenig-Max-Höhe above. The castle complex was naturally well protected against approach on three sides; fortifications were only necessary on the rising north side.

The approximately round castle area, measuring around 60 meters in diameter, is sealed off from the fore area to the northeast towards the plateau at a small saddle of the terrain spur by an arched section ditch. In the middle of this ditch it is interrupted by an earth bridge. Both ends of the trench run out into the steep slopes of the lateral valley valleys, the north-western part is stronger than the south-western part. The northwestern part of the trench is still up to 1.5 meters deep, just before it ends on the slope, it is accompanied by an outer wall. The south-western, flatter half of the ditch is also exposed to a rampart at the earth bridge.

The round inner surface of the castle site has a diameter of 46 meters. It rises slightly from the edge of the Danube valley by 2.5 meters in the shape of a dome, the ground is covered with a thin layer of weathered clay, in some places the pending gneiss breaks through this layer. An inner rampart or other building remains are no longer visible.

In 1964 an excavation was carried out by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , and findings from settlements with ceramics from the Cham culture and a few medieval shards were found.

literature

  • Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Laßleben , Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , pp. 244–245.

Web links

  • Entry for Buchsee in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 244
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  4. ↑ List of monuments for Thyrnau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 137 kB)
  5. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  6. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 244 f.