Tower Hill Old Castle (Hauxdorf)

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The Motte Turmhügel Altes Schloss (also known as the Altes Schloss or Schinderhannesschlössl ) is located south of the Hauxdorf district of the Upper Palatinate town of Erbendorf in the Tirschenreuth district .

history

The castle may have been built by the Counts of Sulzbach . Along with a belonging settlement (the Flurname Empty yard or Larenhof suggests that long a there Wüstung is) this with of the associated settlement already in the Middle Ages been abandoned, as there are no entries in the corresponding arable are.

Hauxdorf is mentioned in a Leuchtenberg fief book from before 1400, whereby it says: "Item Haugsdorf the village bey Ermdorf is everything to fief from us". "Peter Pfreimde" was named as the owner from 1355 to 1399 (as "sat at Haugsdorf"). Heinrich Pfreimder zum Sighards followed him and his son Niklas Pfreimder zum Sigharts, who owned “three farms and a mercenary hostel in Hauxdorf”.

Old Hauxdorf Castle today

The tower hill is about 1.2 km southeast of Hauxdorf and 2.2 km south-southeast of the church of Erbendorf on the slope of a small valley in which a tributary of the Steinbach rises. The embankment is 21 × 22 m at its base and 11 × 12 m on the platform above. The hill is surrounded by a 2 to 9 m wide ditch. There are a number of predatory burial holes on the platform and on the west side .

literature

  • Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 131–132). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 6.6 "  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 44"  E