Diemannskirchen tower hill

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Diemannskirchen tower hill
Tower Hill Diemannskirchen - view from the south (April 2017)

Tower Hill Diemannskirchen - view from the south (April 2017)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Place: Geisenhausen - Hofmühle
Geographical location 48 ° 28 '47.1 "  N , 12 ° 17' 49.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '47.1 "  N , 12 ° 17' 49.8"  E
Height: 460  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Diemannskirchen (Bavaria)
Diemannskirchen tower hill

The Tower Hill Diemannskirchen is an Outbound medieval motte (moth) about 700 meters southwest of the Catholic Church of St. Margaret of Diemannskirchen or about 350 meters south of the Hofmühle , districts of the municipality Geisenhausen in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this hilltop castle , it is roughly dated as medieval. Only a castle hill and a moat have survived from the facility on the edge of a steep slope to the valley of the Kleine Vils . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7539-0028: "Medieval tower hill".

description

The wooded, two-part castle site is located at around 460  m above sea level. NN height on a north-facing spur of the terrain, which was naturally well protected to the north by a steep slope, which was formed by a loop of the Kleine Vils bulging to the south, and on the west and east side by two notched valleys. This spur was secured from the gently sloping fore area in the south by a neck ditch as an obstacle to the approach. The trench is still around 1.5 meters deep to the outside, the difference in height from the bottom of the trench to the plateau of the tower hill immediately to the north is four meters. On the western flank of the castle grounds, the neck ditch ends in the slope of the Kerbtal, on the eastern flank the ditch curves to the north, however, a longer stretch than a slope ditch along the slope. The plateau diameter of the conical tower hill rising from the neck ditch is about ten to eleven meters, it is about ten meters above the Kleine Vils. There are no longer any traces of previous buildings. The south side of the tower hill has been somewhat excavated by animal structures, in the north it drops around five meters over a steep embankment to a 17 meter long plateau at the tip of the spur. This part of the castle is bounded on its west side by the rebound slope to the Kleine Vils, in the east by the slope trench from the neck trench and in the north on the outermost spur tip by a section trench. A gravel pit was operated on the eastern flank of the complex in the local Kerbtal, but this did not affect the castle site. But above all the west and south sides of the tower hill show older disturbances due to unevenness.

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. 201.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Geisenhausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 144 kB)
  3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 201