Egelsee tower hill

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Egelsee tower hill
Creation time : Mentioned in 1119
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Ministeriale
Construction: Sandstone, brick
Place: Lauf an der Pegnitz - Egelsee
Geographical location 49 ° 32 '15.4 "  N , 11 ° 16' 49.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '15.4 "  N , 11 ° 16' 49.6"  E
Egelsee Tower Hill (Bavaria)
Egelsee tower hill

The Tower Hill Egelsee is a Outbound high medieval motte (moth) at Egelsee , a modern suburb of Lauf in Nuremberg County in Bavaria .

The castle was mentioned in a document in 1119. It is unclear whether the castle seat was built by the lords of Oedenberg or by the ministerials from Dehnberg (Tennelberc or Tanneberg, old names for Dehnberg), which can be proven between 1119 and 1134 . On a map from the 18th century, “the Egelsee” is marked at the castle site, which was filled in during the 19th century.

In 1346 the Nuremberg merchant and financier Konrad Groß acquired "their Gesezze near Tenelberg, called the Egelsee with the lake darumb" from Heinrich Oedenberger and his wife Kunigunde. It is not certain whether the castle seat was destroyed in 1486 and then rebuilt. In the 16th century, the "Wasserhaus ze dem See" is said to have been owned by the Ammon family and destroyed in the Thirty Years' War .

In 1915, the castle site, which was originally walled and secured with a moat , was rediscovered. The land monument researcher Wilhelm Hühnermann found a square rampart with sides of 20 meters each and a height of up to 2 meters. Remains of a lining wall made of sandstone and bricks were found in the wall . Hühnemann interpreted the facility as a “water seat” ( pond house ) after the residents reported a “water” or “robbery castle” with a drawbridge that connected the seat to the road leading directly past Dehnberg. In 1957 the last remains of the wall were demolished and in 1980 the tower hill was leveled.

literature

  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Bertold Freiherr von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . 2006

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