Tower hill Burgstaffel

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Tower hill Burgstaffel
Creation time : High or late medieval
Castle type : Hilltop castle, spur position, moth
Conservation status: Castle stable, tower mound, neck moat and wall remains preserved
Place: Hauzenberg - Eitzingerreut
Geographical location 48 ° 39 '41.4 "  N , 13 ° 33' 12.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '41.4 "  N , 13 ° 33' 12.8"  E
Height: 410  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Burgstaffel (Bavaria)
Tower hill Burgstaffel

The Turmhügelburg season is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle from the type of a motte (moth) over the Eger at Eitzingerreut , in the municipality of Hauzenberg in the district of Passau in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle, the name Burgstaffel appears on maps. It is roughly dated as High or Late Medieval , there are no known findings from the fortification. Only the tower hill, a neck ditch and a wall remnant have survived from the complex. The castle site is badly disturbed by a quarry . The site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7347-0006 "Castle stalls of the high or late Middle Ages (" Burgstaffel ")".

description

The wooded castle site is located around 500 meters west-southwest of the center of Eitzingerreut on a gneiss dome on the eastern bank of the Erlau, where a long, nameless stream from the nearby Steinberg joins from the east. The castle was naturally well protected against approach by the river Erlau and the nameless brook on its west side, only on the east or north-east side the terrain rises more strongly and was therefore particularly endangered in an attack.

The place of the castle at around 410  m above sea level. NN Höhe lies on a gneiss dome towering ten meters above the surroundings and is separated from the rising slope by a natural, possibly artificially deepened saddle on the northeast side, where the foreland rises. The gneiss dome, which is around 50 meters long in an east-west direction, is divided into two areas by a one-meter-deep neck trench running from north to south . The western area at the top of the dome was probably the inner castle area , it is designed as a ten meter high, conical tower hill. Its strongly curved surface, which is only slightly covered with humus , measures roughly 18 × 8 meters, clear edges of the terrain are not visible.

The eastern, probably outer bailey area , which merges into the forecourt, shows a weak edge wall on its north side and on the still preserved west side, towards the neck ditch.

The entire system is severely disturbed in its entire southern area by an extensive quarry.

literature

  • Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Laßleben , Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 255.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 255
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Hauzenberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)
  4. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  5. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historic terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 255