Burglesau tower hill

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Burglesau tower hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hilltop castle, spur position, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Scheßlitz - Burglesau - "Schlappenreuther Berg"
Geographical location 49 ° 59 '17.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 43.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '17.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 43.7"  E
Height: 505  m above sea level NHN
Burglesau tower hill (Bavaria)
Burglesau tower hill

The tower hill Burglesau is a defunct medieval tower hill castle (Motte) south of the village Burglesau , a current district of Scheßlitz in the district of Bamberg in Bavaria , Germany . It is located on the saddle between the Schlappenreuther Berg and the Melm. No historical or archaeological information is known about this hilltop castle , it is roughly dated to medieval times. The tower hill is largely destroyed today. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6032-0004: Tower Hill of the Middle Ages .

description

The castle site is about 850 meters south-southwest of the local church of Burglesau at about 505  m above sea level. NN Height on the north edge of a mountain saddle that extends from east to west to Schlappenreuther Berg . The oval tower hill, still around 20 × 10 meters in size, was placed on a rock spur protruding north from the saddle, so that its northwest, north and northeast sides naturally well against one due to the steep slope of the terrain into the valley of the Burglesauer Bächlein Approach were protected. The southern side of the tower hill was protected by a ten-meter-wide neck ditch against the flat fore terrain in the south and the slight ascent to the Schlappenreuther Berg in the southwest and to Melm in the southeast.

literature

  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
  • 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. 47.

Web links

  • Entry on Burglesau in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Scheßlitz (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 185 kB)
  3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 47