Cowl lock
| Cowl lock | ||
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 Location of the tower hill (October 2012) |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Hof - Martinsreuth | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 16 '32 " N , 11 ° 52' 21.7" E | |
| Height: | 545 m above sea level NN | |
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The Kuttenschloss , also known as the Martinsreuth Tower Hill , was a fortified building north-northeast of Martinsreuth in the area of the independent city of Hof in Upper Franconia .
Location and appearance
The location of the former fortified building near the village of Martinsreuth is already part of the catchment area of the city of Hof. The area is located on the edge of the forest directly on federal road 2 from Konradsreuth to Hof. It is not signposted. The site is now protected as a ground monument number D-4-5737-0025: Medieval tower hill . The area is heavily overgrown, only uneven ground can be seen. In 1926 the site was partially examined, the whereabouts of the ceramic shards found in the process is not known. The building lay on a spur that sloped slightly west to a damp valley of a brook. According to a description from 1933, it is said to have been surrounded by a square ditch with a side length of 23 meters. On the outside of the trench there were still remnants of walls on two sides. After 1933 the area was almost completely leveled.
Theories about the type of building
In the standard literature, the system is based on a castle ( tower hill castle , motte), but only the traces of a reinforced building described, but no written sources.
According to Norbert Goßler, the Kuttenschloss is a fortified storage building in the Hof Hospital , which operated open- cast mining in the immediate vicinity. The field names that are associated with Kutte or Kaute still bear witness to this. Kutte generally stands for picking over and searching for, reworking heaps and residues for mineral raw materials. Accordingly, the building was erected in the middle of the 14th century and fell into disrepair in the 15th century.
literature
- Norbert Goßler: The mysterious cowl lock near Konradsreuth . In: Absolvia Hof . 2006. pp. 22-28.
- Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 106.
Web links
- Aerial photo with the BayernAtlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for courtyard (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 185 kB)
- ↑ a b Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 106.