Tower hill dog print

Tower hill dog print
Hundsdruck tower hill - view from the south
Creation time :	Unknown
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Happurg
Geographical location	49 ° 29 '52.4 "  N , 11 ° 27' 35.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '52.4 "  N , 11 ° 27' 35.2"  E
Height:	360  m above sea level NN

The Tower Hill Dog pressure is the residue of a dialed Turmhügelburg (moth) northwest of the parish village Happurg in Middle Franconia Nuremberg County in Bavaria . The castle is almost completely gone, only the artificially raised hill is evidence of it.

Geographical location

The tower hill is located in the central area of ​​the Hersbrucker Alb , part of the Frankenjura low mountain range . It is located on the Schnellerleite at about 360  m above sea level. NN height at the northern foot of the Bauernberg above the valley of the Happurger Baches. The place of the abandoned castle is about 10 meters above the valley floor and about 1100 meters northwest of the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Mary and St. George in Happurg, or about 28.5 kilometers northeast of Nuremberg .

Nearby there are other former medieval castles, above the town of Happurg is the Hacburg castle stable , a little further south above the Happurger See was the Reicheneck castle , today a ruin with only a few preserved remains. To the east is the Lichtenstein castle ruins and in Hersbruck to the west is the Hersbrucker Schloss, a former castle.

History of the castle

There is no documentary mention of the former tower hill castle near Happurg , and the original name of the castle and its builder are also unknown. The tower hill is located on the old local road from Hersbruck to Happurg and offers a good overview of the Pegnitz valley , where the so-called Golden Road , an important trade route that connected the imperial city of Nuremberg and the city of Prague , used to run. The function of the castle is not known, but could have been in the surveillance of another old road running there , which led from Lauterhofen in Upper Palatinate via Schupf and Happurg to Hersbruck and on to Forchheim . According to Gustav Voit, it could also have been a roadblock in the Reicheneck territory that was destroyed in 1348, but there is no documentary evidence for these two assumptions.

Today the freely accessible castle site is preserved as a meadow hill, fruit trees were planted on its surface and a small wooden hut was built there.

The ground monument registered by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as "Medieval Tower Hill" bears the monument number D-5-6534-0015.

Description of the castle stables

The former moth enclosure is located on a slope that slopes slightly to the north at the foot of the 586.3 meter high Bauernberg. The artificially created tower hill has a circular floor plan with a diameter of about 80 meters and is still three to four meters high. In the past, the hill was surrounded by a ditch and an outer wall, hardly any traces of both have been preserved. Traces of construction on the grounds of the castle stable are also no longer present.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . Published by Altnürnberger Landschaft eV, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 3-00-020677-9 , p. 174.
• Walter Heinz: Former castles in the vicinity of Rothenberg, Part 3 (Vom Rothenberg and its surroundings, issue 15/3) . Published by the Heimatverein Schnaittach e. V., Schnaittach 1992, pp. 148-149.
• Wilhelm Schwemmer: The art monuments of Middle Franconia, Volume X: District of Hersbruck . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1959, p. 97.

Web links

• Burgstall Hundsdruck on the page "Castles and manors in the Nuremberg countryside"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 6534 Happurg
2. ↑ Hersbruck Castle and Palace on the BLfD website ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Walter Heinz: Former castles in the vicinity of the Rothenberg. Part 3, p. 149.
4. ↑ Burgstall Hundsdruck on the BLfD website ( memento of the original from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.