Tower Hill Old Castle (Haßlach)

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Tower Hill Old Castle
Creation time : before 1300
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Stockheim - Hasslach
Geographical location 50 ° 17 '16.6 "  N , 11 ° 17' 46.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '16.6 "  N , 11 ° 17' 46.6"  E
Height: 330  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Old Castle (Bavaria)
Tower Hill Old Castle

The Tower Hill Old Castle is an Outbound Wasserburg the type of Turmhügelburg (moth) on an island ( 330  m above sea level.  NHN ) between two streams of Haßlach on the southern edge of Haßlach , in the municipality of Stockheim in the district of Kronach in Bavaria .

The lords of Haßlach and then the lords of Cappel are named as owners of the castle until 1307. In 1434 the castle is mentioned as a Bamberg fief . After the castle was destroyed in 1525 during the peasant war , it was rebuilt. After its destruction in 1633 in the course of the Thirty Years War , it was demolished for the extraction of building material.

literature

  • Stefan Vierboom: The excavations of the "Old Castle" in Hasslach near Kronach . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria, 1989 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, p. 190 f.
  • 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. 108.

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