Gessenhausen Tower Hill

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Gessenhausen Tower Hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, wall and moat remains
Place: Taching am See - Gessenhausen
Geographical location 47 ° 58 '38.3 "  N , 12 ° 45' 1.1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '38.3 "  N , 12 ° 45' 1.1"  E
Height: 485  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Gessenhausen (Bavaria)
Gessenhausen Tower Hill

The Tower Hill Gessenhausen is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle from the type of a motte (moth) on a 485  m above sea level. NHN high projection over the Tachinger See 1100 meters southwest of the chapel of Gessenhausen , a district of the municipality of Taching am See in the district of Traunstein in Bavaria .

From the former moth enclosure , which was protected to the east by a rampart and a ditch , ramparts and remains of the ditch are still preserved. The Burgstall is now a ground monument .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: The castles and palaces in the Traunstein district . In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces e. V. (Ed.): Castles in the Alps . From the series: Research on castles and palaces, Volume 14. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-760-9 , p. 77.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 262 .

Web links

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