Burgstall Tiefenthal

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Burgstall Tiefenthal
Information board Burgstall Tiefenthal

Information board Burgstall Tiefenthal

Alternative name (s): Kapellenberg
Creation time : probably in the 12th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle chapel
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Wörth on the Danube - Tiefenthal
Geographical location 48 ° 59 '39.4 "  N , 12 ° 25' 44.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '39.4 "  N , 12 ° 25' 44.2"  E
Height: 387  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Tiefenthal (Bavaria)
Burgstall Tiefenthal

The Burgstall Tiefenthal , also called Kapellenberg , is an abandoned hilltop castle at 387  m above sea level. NN high hill in the district Tiefenthal of the city of Wörth an der Donau in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria .

Little reliable data are known about the hilltop castle, which was probably built in the 12th century by the Lords of Tiefenthal. The castle was abandoned before 1400 and mentioned as a castle stables in 1401 .

The former core castle with moat was to the west behind the castle chapel and the former outer bailey in place of the large meadow on the east and north sides. Today's Burgstall shows nothing above ground and is a ground monument .

The originally two-storey castle chapel Sankt Ulrich and Wolfgang has been preserved, dates from the 12th to 13th centuries and was rebuilt in the 17th century.

literature

  • Andreas Boos : Castles in the south of the Upper Palatinate - the early and high medieval fortifications of the Regensburg area . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-930480-03-4 , pp. 384-387;
  • Ludwig Schindler (text author): City guide Wörth. Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2008, ISBN 978-3-936511-52-9 .
  • Ludwig Schindler: Large community of the city of Wörth in the past and present. 1st edition. Wörth ad Donau 2001, OCLC 166027622
  • Georg Hager: St. Ulrich and Wolfgang, Tiefenthal. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Oberpfalz and Regensburg, District Office Regensburg 1910) unchanged reprint 1981, ISBN 3-486-50451-7

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Former Castle chapel St. Ulrich and Wolfgang, Tiefenthal