Gutser Schloss tower hill

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Gutser Schloss tower hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, valley edge location, Motte
Conservation status: Disappeared, tower hill received
Place: Freystadt - Jettenhofen Forestry Department "Kesselberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 7 '2.4 "  N , 11 ° 20' 49"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '2.4 "  N , 11 ° 20' 49"  E
Height: 490  m above sea level NN
Tower Hill Gutser Schloss (Bavaria)
Gutser Schloss tower hill

The Tower Hill Gutser Castle is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle from the type of a motte (Moth) on a mountain edge in the Forestry Department Kesselberg. It lies above the Schwarzach valley and a small tributary, around 870 meters south of Jettenhofen in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Freystadt in Bavaria , Germany .

Little information is available about this castle. It was probably the seat of the Lauterbach local nobility or the predecessor of the Viehhausen Castle just one kilometer to the south . Only a mighty truncated pyramid-shaped tower hill has survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6834-0084: "Medieval tower hill Gutser Schloß".

history

The within sight of the castle Jette Hofen and the castle Burggriesbach located Turmhügelburg was probably the ancestral castle of the first mentioned by Henry Lauterbach 1274 race. That year he was the owner of the facility, which was sold to the Eichstätter Prince-Bishop Martin von Schaumberg in 1586 . When the castle was abandoned is unknown, at the beginning of the 19th century people wrote about it: "Gutser Schloß, formerly a castle on the Keßlberge ... of which you can only see the remains of some walls and gardens ..." .

It is also not known where the name Gutser Schloss comes from. Rädle suspects, since he regards the tower hill castle as the predecessor of the castle of Viehhausen, which belonged to Götz von Wolfstein among others in 1446 , that the name could go back to Götz and mean "Götzen Castle".

description

The Burgstall is about 490  m above sea level. NN height directly on the edge of a plateau, which drops with a steep slope to the north about 120  meters . The tower hill, several meters high, is shaped like a truncated pyramid , the surface of which measures nine by nine meters. The east side of this hill was cut by a quarry . A trench can also be seen on this side, but it could also have been created by the quarry. The south side of the castle site, to which the plateau adjoins, has no ditch as an obstacle to approach, only a shallow depression separated the complex from the plateau. There are no foundations or other structural remains. Today the place is heavily overgrown with bushes, so that an overview is difficult.

literature

  • Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district . Published by the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Neumarkt o. J., ISBN 3-920142-14-4 , p. 24.
  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 114-115.
  • 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. 170.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 114
  2. ^ Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district , p. 24
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Freystadt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 156 kB)
  4. ↑ Source up to this point: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 114
  5. ^ Herbert Rädle: Castles and fortress stables in the Neumarkt district , p. 24
  6. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
  7. ^ Source description: Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 170