Hechenberg tower hill

Hechenberg tower hill
	Hechenberg Tower Hill - View over the water-filled moat
Creation time :	probably 11th to 12th centuries
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, island preserved in pond
Place:	Dietramszell - Hechenberg
Geographical location	47 ° 49 '23.5 " N , 11 ° 32' 50.4" E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '23.5 " N , 11 ° 32' 50.4" E
Height:	700 m above sea level NHN

The Tower Hill Hechenberg is a Outbound Wasserburg the type of Turmhügelburg (Motte) 100 meters northeast of the church of the district Hechenberg the community Dietramszell in the district of Bad Tolz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria .

The tower hill castle ( Motte ), founded by the Lords of Hechenberg, probably in the 11th or 12th century, was surrounded by a five to seven meter wide moat . It is possible that a previous investment of about 200 meters west in flat promontory situated castle Hechenberg from the 13th century. The castle was mentioned in 1033 and 1045. It was destroyed in the 15th century and demolished in the 19th century.

Only traces of the tower hill are left of the former castle complex, today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-8135-0003 "Tower hill of the Middle Ages (Hechenberg)" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

The area is designated as a ground monument (D-1-8135-0003) by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) .

literature

Michael Weithmann: Knights and Castles in Upper Bavaria - Forays into the medieval country between the Alps, Danube, Lech and Salzach . Verlagsanstalt Bayerland, Dachau 1999, ISBN 3-89251-276-0 , p. 105.
Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Published by the district of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1995, pp. 178–179.
Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 44 .

Web links

Motte Hechenberg Castle at burgenwelt.de

Individual evidence

↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
↑ Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria. P. 179
^ Entry on Hechenberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
↑ List of monuments for Dietramszell (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 159 kB)

[1] Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas

[2] Michael W. Weithmann: Inventory of the castles of Upper Bavaria. P. 179

[3] Entry on Hechenberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

[4] List of monuments for Dietramszell (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 159 kB)