Engleshof tower hill

Engleshof tower hill
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Castle stable, tower hill with moat and rampart preserved
Place:	Pirk - Engleshof
Geographical location	49 ° 36 '34.9 "  N , 12 ° 12' 31.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '34.9 "  N , 12 ° 12' 31.1"  E
Height:	402  m above sea level NHN

The Tower Hill Engleshof is an Outbound medieval motte (moth), some 125 meters east of Engleshof , in the municipality of Pirk in Upper Palatinate Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval. Without any evidence, it was assumed that “the Engleshofers used to sit here, of whom, according to popular tradition, the last owners should have bequeathed the present large church forest to the parish of Luhe. The facility was previously protected by the Gleitsbach and artificial trenches that are now leveled . "

Near the northern bank of the Gleitsbach is a 3.5 meter high truncated pyramid-shaped mound of earth with strongly rounded corners. Its base measures 22 × 20 meters. Today there is a garden on the upper platform. The east side of the hill is said to have been protected against the slowly rising terrain by a ditch, where an arm of the Gleitsbach runs today, while ponds or swamps are likely to have expanded on the valley side.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• 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. 227.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : 900 years of the Pirk community. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1993, p. 71.