Tower Hill Am Schanzl (Amberg)

Tower hill on the Schanzl
	Overbuilding of the tower hill by the TC Amberg (2016)
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Construction:	disappeared
Place:	On the mountain
Geographical location	49 ° 26 '17.6 " N , 11 ° 51' 51" E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '17.6 " N , 11 ° 51' 51" E
Height:	395 m above sea level NHN

The Tower Hill On Schanzl is an Outbound medieval motte (Motte) in the Upper Palatinate town of Amberg in Amberg-Sulzbach of Bavaria . The tower hill was 875 m southeast of the parish church of St. Martin in the Vils valley floodplain .

description

The tower hill was piled up like a truncated pyramid on an area of 24 × 16 m and was surrounded by a moat . Later it disappeared in a lake of the former sewage treatment plant in Amberg or today it is overbuilt by a tennis sports facility.

history

Historically, the castle stable "Schanzl" is mentioned in a deed from 1548.

literature

Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 71.

Web links

Entry on Disappeared Castle Am Schanzl in the private database "Alle Burgen".