Adlitz tower hill

Adlitz tower hill
Creation time :	Mentioned around 1017
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Ahorntal - Adlitz
Geographical location	49 ° 49 '13.4 "  N , 11 ° 25' 57.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '13.4 "  N , 11 ° 25' 57.8"  E
Height:	481.3  m above sea level NN

The tower hill Adlitz is a defunct tower castle (Motte) in the center of Adlitz , a district of the municipality Ahorntal in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria .

The moth was mentioned around 1017 and in 1374 a Rudolf von Rabenstein was mentioned as "Adlotz". In 1430 the castle was destroyed in the course of the Hussite Wars and then rebuilt. In 1525 it was destroyed again in the Peasants' War, then rebuilt and destroyed again in the Thirty Years War .

In the period from 1696 to 1718 Christian Friedrich von Rabenstein had the remains of the castle removed and built Adlitz Castle on the remains of the complex, with the ground floor still from the previous building.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 131-132.
• Hellmut Kunstmann : The castles of eastern Franconian Switzerland . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1965, pp. 279–292.
• 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. 130.
• Hellmut Kunstmann: Castles in Upper Franconia, ownership, building history and fates. Part 1: The castles of the noble families in the Wiesent area . Verlag EC Baumann, Kulmbach 1953, pp. 145-147.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schloss Adlitz at reifen-waechter.de
2. ^ Entry on Adlitz Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
3. ↑ Schloss Adlitz at reifen-waechter.de
4. ^ Entry on Schloss Adlitz in the private database "Alle Burgen".