Kammerdorf tower hill

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Kammerdorf tower hill
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains of the moat
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Cham -Kammerdorf
Geographical location 49 ° 13 '46.8 "  N , 12 ° 42' 54"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '46.8 "  N , 12 ° 42' 54"  E
Height: 370  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Kammerdorf (Bavaria)
Kammerdorf tower hill

The tower hill Kammerdorf is an abandoned Niederungsburg at about 370  m above sea level. NHN in a meadow area of ​​the Chambaue in the Windischbergerdorf district 475 meters east of the Kammerdorf district of the district town of Cham in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The castle was probably built as ancestral seat in the first half of the 12th century by the lords of Kammerdorf, who were the ministerials of the Diepoldinger and later the Wittelsbach family. The castle was abandoned in the 14th century.

description

It is not certain whether the two-part, 30 by 50 meter oval low-rise castle was a tower hill castle (moth). It was not until 1982 that the location of the castle was recognized from the air.

The castle complex was enclosed by a 10 meter wide moat fed by the Chamb , of which a 0.5 meter deep hollow can still be seen. From the aerial photo, a 10 by 10 meter stone house can be seen, which can be interpreted as a tower, which can essentially indicate a moth. Other moat structures indicate a bailey . Today the castle site is a ground monument .

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 364-365.

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