Burgstall Ottersdorf
Burgstall Ottersdorf | ||
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Alternative name (s): | Burgstall Hexenagger | |
Creation time : | around 1108 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Place: | Altmannstein - Hexenagger - Ottersdorf - "Schnelzer Berg" | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 55 '16.7 " N , 11 ° 40' 40.4" E | |
Height: | 424 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Postal Otterndorf , local conditions as Postal Hexenagger called, is an Outbound Spur castle on a steep 424 m above sea level. NHN high rock spur above the valley, the Schindergrund, near the hamlet of Ottersdorf west of Hexenagger, a district of the Altmannstein market in the Eichstätt district in Bavaria .
The lords of Ottersdorf are mentioned in a document from 1108 to 1140 as the owners of the small castle, which is difficult to capture. The castle served the local population and their cattle as a refuge .
The castle was secured by a palisade fence on the outer wall and a semicircular double wall system raised with palisades behind which there was a wooden building connected to the steep slope by a bridge on a rock spur.
Wall and moat remains from the former castle complex have been preserved. The Burgstall is now a ground monument .
literature
- Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 1: Lower Altmühltal . 2nd Edition. Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-42-3 , p. 68.
- Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke (arr.): Upper Bavaria . Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
Web links
- Burgstall Ottersdorf at kraftvolle-orte.de
- Entry on Hexenagger in the private database "Alle Burgen".