Burgstall Leithen

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Burgstall Leithen
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 - Leithen
Geographical location 48 ° 34 '31.9 "  N , 13 ° 32' 56.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '31.9 "  N , 13 ° 32' 56.1"  E
Height: 400  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Leithen (Bavaria)
Burgstall Leithen

The Postal Leithen denotes a Outbound high or late medieval hilltop castle on the northern edge of the valley of the Danube in Innerleithen , in the municipality of Thyrnau in the district of Passau in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle. It is roughly dated as High or Late Medieval , there are no known findings from the fortification. Only a rampart and a moat have survived from the small castle. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7447-0010 "Burgstall of the high or late Middle Ages".

description

The mostly wooded castle site is about 800 meters southwest of Leithen at 400  m above sea level. NHN Höhe on a tongue of land facing west-south-west, which on its west-south-west narrow side drops very steeply around 100  meters into the valley of the Danube, which also forms the border with Austria here. Its north-north-west long side is secured by the valley of the short Hochwiestobelbach , in the south-south-east a deeply cut, dry Kerbtal delimits the tongue of the land. The castle complex was naturally very well protected against approach on three sides, and fortification was only necessary on the rising east-northeast side.

The castle area, which widens slightly at its top, slopes steadily towards the Danube valley, and is secured 70 meters in front of the tip of the tongue of the land by a wall running across the ridge. An external trench was added to this rampart as an additional approach protection. The moat bar runs far down the slope in the north-west with a noticeable setback. It has interruptions in several places, on the ridge line of the tongue of the land it is broken through by a path.

This Burgstall belongs to the one- storey mansion type , so its inner surface is not or only slightly raised compared to the area in front of it. In this case, it is even lower than the area in front of the site due to the sloping terrain.

literature

  • Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (edit.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume II Niederbayern, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), R. Oldenbourg Verlag , 1985.
  • 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 , p. 245.

Web links

  • Entry on Leithen in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Thyrnau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 137 kB)
  3. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 245