Grubach tower hill

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Grubach tower hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Place: Berching - Grubach
Geographical location 49 ° 8 '31 .9 N , 11 ° 29' 17.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8  '31.9 " N , 11 ° 29' 17.9"  E
Height: 525  m above sea level NHN
Grubach tower hill (Bavaria)
Grubach tower hill

The Tower Hill Grubach is an Outbound medieval motte (moth) on the northwestern edge of the local part Grubach the city Berching in Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval.

The tower hill lies on the edge of a plateau in the middle of a mine field above the Allmannsbrunn in the headwaters of the Hirschbach. The hill, which is about 2.5 m high, is surrounded by a moat . Its top diameter is about 8 m. The trench is approx. 1 to 1.5 m deep and 3 m wide. The much younger excavation pits are unrelated to the moth. The tower hill is shown in the BayernAtlas as a ground monument D-3-6834-0004 with prehistoric and prehistoric times.

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. 195.

Individual evidence

  1. Grubach cadastre , accessed on April 11, 2020.
  2. ^ Latin language relics in the Bavarian dialect - place names - castle stables and tower mounds , accessed on April 11, 2020.

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