Gessenhausen Tower Hill
Gessenhausen Tower Hill | ||
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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 | |
Height: | 485 m above sea level NHN | |
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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".