Motte Gefrees-Bühl

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Motte Gefrees-Bühl
View of the core mound (2011)

View of the core mound (2011)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Moth in spurs
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle hill preserved
Place: Gefrees - "Mühlberg"
Geographical location 50 ° 5 '36 "  N , 11 ° 43' 54"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '36 "  N , 11 ° 43' 54"  E
Height: 500  m above sea level NN
Motte Gefrees-Bühl (Bavaria)
Motte Gefrees-Bühl
The Bühl in the local newspaper of the premiere of Bavaria

The Postal Gefrees-Bühl is the residue of a departed Höhenburg the type of a Turmhügelburg (moth) on the Miihlberg in Gefrees in the district of Bayreuth in Oberfranken .

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located on the eastern ledge of the Mühlberg in Gefrees, on the Bühl corridor, 500  m above sea level. NN , about 550 meters from the center of Gefrees. The mountain spur is delimited by the course of the Lübnitzbach.

Settlement area

Immediately to the north, at the foot of the Mühlberg, is the deserted area of ​​Sichenhofen. This settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1365 and for the last time in 1534 . The Burgstall is located at the fork of the old trade route Via Imperii and an old road to Bohemia .

description

On the nose of the mountain, which slopes steeply to the northeast, east and southeast, there is an artificial oval core hill with a size of about 20 by 25 meters. Due to the property built on the property in 1910 and its use, the facility was severely affected. There is nothing left of a possible wall and trench for a section fortification to the west and northwest. The original size and shape of the core mound in this direction can also no longer be recorded.

history

There is no documentary evidence of the system.

proof

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation has registered the moth as a ground monument in the Bavarian Monument List under the number D-4-5936-0005 "Medieval Tower Hill".

literature

  • Karl Dietel: Tower hill in the heart of the Münchberg valley . In: Archive for the History of Upper Franconia, Volume 41 . Bayreuth 1961, pp. 207-270.
  • Anett Haberlah-Pohl: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Francs. Münchberg - The Altlandkreis (Series I, Volume 39). Munich 2011, ISBN 9783769665567 , p. 156 ff.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, booklet 5 (text), 1955, p. 127.
  • Markus Thoma, Claus Rabsahl, Ingo Sördert: Bad Berneck and Gefrees - A search for traces from the origins to the High Middle Ages . Historisches Forum Gefrees (Ed.), Gefrees 2013, pp. 252–254.
  • Markus Thoma: The medieval fortifications in the area around Gefrees . (Gefreeser Geschichte (n), Heft 5), Historisches Forum Gefrees, Gefrees 2011, pp. 11–12.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Location of the Burgstall in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Gefrees (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)