Hartungs Tower Hill
Hartungs Tower Hill | ||
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Site of the tower hill 2015 |
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Alternative name (s): | Hartungs Castle, Hartungs Castle | |
Creation time : | Mentioned in 1398 | |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
Place: | Leupoldsgrün - Hartungs | |
Geographical location | 50 ° 16 '42.4 " N , 11 ° 47' 45.5" E | |
Height: | 620 m above sea level NN | |
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The tower hill Hartungs , also called Hartungs Castle or Schloss Hartungs , is a defunct tower hill castle (Motte) in Hartungs , a district of the municipality Leupoldsgrün in the district of Hof in Bavaria .
History and description
The tower hill was built as a Vorwerk and moated castle of the von Lüchau family on Konradsreuth and served to secure the old road to Ahornberg . The core hill has a diameter of 15 to 20 meters, the moats, which can still be seen in the north and west, are six meters wide. The complex was described as a double castle in the middle of the 16th century, and Pezold Vasmann was passed down as a roommate as early as 1390 . 1398 the Lüchauer of Johann III. enfeoffed, they owned seven estates and two inns in the area. In the brewery of the castle , the beer was brewed for the inns.
Since Heinz von Lüchau supported predatory opponents of the free imperial city of Nuremberg , the city demanded that various knights be accountable and also the destruction of several castles. The Swabian Federation finally destroyed a selection of castles during a punitive expedition in 1523 .
During the Thirty Years' War the moated castle was destroyed by Croatians in 1632. The adjacent, higher-lying farm yard developed over time into a manor. The Lüchauer, who founded their own older and younger line in Hartungs, died out in 1667.
literature
- Alban von Dobenck : History of the extinct lineage of Lüchau . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . Volume 24, Issue 3. Bayreuth 1911. pp. 21-194.
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The art monuments of Bavaria . Munich 1960. p. 53.
- Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East . Heroldsberg 1984. pp. 352f.
Web links
- Entry on Hartungs in the private database "Alle Burgen".