Altencreußen tower hill

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Altencreußen tower hill
Traces of terrain up to the core area by the houses

Traces of terrain up to the core area by the houses

Creation time : First mentioned in 1337
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a moat
Place: Prebitz - Altencreußen
Geographical location 49 ° 48 '46.8 "  N , 11 ° 39' 58.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '46.8 "  N , 11 ° 39' 58.6"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NHN
Altencreußen tower hill (Bavaria)
Altencreußen tower hill

The Tower Hill Altencreußen is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) on the southern outskirts of Altencreußen , in the municipality of Prebitz in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria .

history

The moated castle was first mentioned in 1337 as a permanent house . In 1401 or 1404 the Lords of Vannau were named as the owners of the "bricked house"; in 1418 the seat "on the whale" belonged to the Künsbergers . In 1430 the castle was destroyed in the course of the Hussite Wars and was named the castle stables in 1431 and 1499 . In 1481 the von Aufseß can be found in the village. Today the Burgstall, which is on agricultural land, is registered as a ground monument D-4-6136-0003 "Medieval Tower Hill" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

The moth lay in the upper section of the Creußen valley on a south-facing spur, which is bounded in the east and west by the valleys of small streams and drops about four meters to the south. On the top of the spur was the round core mound of the castle with a diameter of 18 meters. This hill was protected by a ring ditch with an outer wall, on the mountain side in the north an additional section ditch was created in front of it . Large parts of these fortifications have been severely disrupted and flattened by recent construction activities, where these structures are still preserved, the ring trench is still seven meters wide, the outer wall ten meters wide and up to 1.7 meters high an externally measured height of up to 2.8 meters.

The cartographer of the Plassenburg Johann Christoph Stierlein made a detailed map of the complex in 1792. In addition to an almost square outer wall and Ken hill, the rod-shaped extension of the wall in a southerly direction, which is surrounded by the brook on both sides, is particularly striking. The narrow, elongated elevation is still visible in this form today.

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Published by the district of Bayreuth, Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , pp. 116 and 125.
  • 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. 144.
  • Hans Vollet, Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein. The drawings from the collections of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Obermain Landscape Museum on the Plassenburg ob Kulmbach from March 25 to April 24, 1987), Kulmbach 1987.

Web links

Commons : Altencreußen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia. P. 144.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district. P. 116.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Prebitz (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 125 kB)