Burgstall Teufelsturm (Hutthurm)

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Burgstall Teufelsturm
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, three moats preserved
Place: Hutthurm - Kleeham
Geographical location 48 ° 39 '2.9 "  N , 13 ° 26' 48.9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '2.9 "  N , 13 ° 26' 48.9"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Teufelsturm (Bavaria)
Burgstall Teufelsturm

The Postal Teufelsturm is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle in the Bavarian Forest overlooking the valley of Ilz at Kleeham , in the municipality Hutthurm in the district of Passau in Bavaria .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle. It is roughly dated as medieval . Finds from the complex referred to by Alexander Erhard as the Watzmannsdorf castle originate from the year 1885, when remnants classified as human bones as well as household appliances and the like were found. Furthermore, a presumed horse skeleton with bar bridle and a gilded bronze bridle were excavated. The bronze snaffle was made for the time 13./14. Century. Only three trenches have survived from the complex, the place is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7346-0004 "Medieval Castle Stables Devil Tower".

description

The castle site is 600 meters west of the outskirts of Kleeham on the eastern bank of the Ilz valley on a triangular spur. This terrain spur is formed in the north by the deep valley of a nameless brook that flows into the Ilz from the village of Rußöd and on the south side by the steeply sloping valley of the Stempbach , which also flows into the Ilz just a few meters downstream. The western tip of the spur stands above the deeply cut valley of the Ilz, in the east a small plateau joins on which also the place Kleeham lies. Below the Spornspitze, a small street runs directly along the Ilzufer. The castle complex at around 370  m above sea level. NN Höhe was naturally well protected against approach on three sides, only on the slightly up to 395  m above sea level. Access was possible on the east side rising above sea level.

The wooded castle site was located on a terrain spur, which ends like a ridge at its tip and forms a rounded and slightly elevated plateau on the spur back, 15 to 20 meters in diameter. A burial hole is visible on the western edge of this plateau, on the eastern edge there are wide embankments. To the east of the plateau is an inner neck ditch . Another two slightly less pronounced trenches follow the inner trench at a distance of 25.63 and 100 meters.

In 1885 a farmer from Hutthurm dug the foundation walls of a square tower with sides of four feet on the castle site. The above-mentioned finds were also made.

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 , p. 244.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. The finds were then in the possession of the Straßkirchen brewer Hellmannsberger
  3. Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 244
  4. List of monuments for Hutthurm (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 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