Tower Hill Old Castle (Stobersreuth)

Tower Hill Old Castle
	Today's view of the site (November 2015)
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Stobersreuth
Geographical location	50 ° 13 '33.9 " N , 11 ° 54' 37.9" E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '33.9 " N , 11 ° 54' 37.9" E
Height:	530 m above sea level NN

The tower hill Altes Schloss is a defunct tower castle (Motte) in Stobersreuth in the district of Hof in Bavaria .

Even if there are hardly any traces of the moth in the village of Stobersreuth today, the complex is significant in terms of settlement history and exemplifies early fortifications in the area. The core mound, surrounded by water, was filled in in the north and northeast so that it appears as an indentation on the bank of the pond. The complex was probably built in the 14th century after the Counts of Henneberg had transferred the place to the Hirschbergers on the Rudolfstein as their imperial fief in 1317 . Later, the facility and the adjacent farm served as the preliminary work for the manor in Schwarzenbach .

literature

August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1960, p. 61 f.

Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East . Heroldsberg 1984, p. 379.

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. 107.

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