Grögling tower hill

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Grögling tower hill
Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Standing position : Count
Place: Dietfurt an der Altmühl - Grögling
Geographical location 49 ° 0 '34.3 "  N , 11 ° 33' 1.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '34.3 "  N , 11 ° 33' 1.3"  E
Grögling tower hill (Bavaria)
Grögling tower hill

The Tower Hill Grögling is an Outbound high medieval moated castle of type of a motte (moth) next to the present Church of St. John and Paul on the southern Altmühl shore near the bridge at Grögling , a modern district of Dietfurt an der Altmühl in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

The castle was built around 1100 and was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Grögling-Hirschberg (Chregelingen), of whom an Altmann von Grögling is mentioned in 1098. The Counts of Grögling had been of paramount importance in the south-west of the Nordgau since the second half of the 11th century. After the Counts of Hirschberg died out in 1305, their inheritance went to the Bishop of Eichstätt and, for the most part, to the Duke of Upper Bavaria. The castle fell apart from 1305 or earlier.

At the end of the 18th century the chapel of St. John and Paul was built next to the castle stables .

Of the former castle , surrounded by a water-filled ditch that has now silted up , only the approximately 3 meter high tower hill, an irregular, low mound of earth with a diameter of approximately 35 meters has been preserved.

literature

  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district - A guide to historical sites , Neumarkt i. D. Opf. (Ed.)

Web links

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