Burgstall Tollberg

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Burgstall Tollberg
Alternative name (s): Dollberg, Thalberg
Creation time : High or late medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Place: Siegsdorf - Traundorf - "Tollberg"
Geographical location 47 ° 50 '18.9 "  N , 12 ° 38' 38.7"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '18.9 "  N , 12 ° 38' 38.7"  E
Height: 630  m above sea level NHN
Burgstall Tollberg (Bavaria)
Burgstall Tollberg

The Postal Toll Mountain , also Dollenberg or Thalberg called, refers to an Outbound Spur castle on a 630  m above sea level. NHN high spur of the "Tollberg" about 1000 meters south on the Traunhochufer near Traundorf , a district of the municipality of Siegsdorf in the Traunstein district in Bavaria .

Tollberg Castle was built during the High and Late Middle Ages , and in the period between 1180 and 1195, “Siboto von Toleberch der Wahe”, a noble family named after the castle, was mentioned.

From the castle, a pronounced section fortification between the Traun and the gorge of the Tollberger Graben with triple wall and ditch system, only the triangular castle area, which slopes steeply on three sides, is preserved. Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-8141-0078 "Castle stalls of the high or late Middle Ages" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: The castles and palaces in the Traunstein district . In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces e. V. (Ed.): Castles in the Alps . (= Research on castles and palaces. Volume 14). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-760-9 , p. 77.
  • Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, p. 260.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria , p. 260.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Siegsdorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 150 kB)