Kratzeburg tower hill
| Kratzeburg tower hill | ||
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 The tower hill in today's representation |
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| Alternative name (s): | Schlossberg tower hill | |
| Creation time : | 14./15. century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Gentry | |
| Construction: | Field stones | |
| Place: | Kratzeburg | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 25 '45 " N , 12 ° 56' 47.1" E | |
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The tower hill Kratzeburg , also called tower hill Schlossberg , is a tower hill castle (Motte) in Kratzeburg in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Today only the earth relic remains of the castle complex.
description
The moth enclosure was typical of a local knight's low-aristocratic castle . It was on a country road that crossed the Havel .
The castle foundation made of field stones with the wooden tower structure stood on an artificially created hill, which was surrounded by a ditch about 8 meters wide. The hill is still 3.5 meters high today.
The facility was built and used in the 13th and 14th centuries.
According to a legend, an underground corridor is said to connect the tower hill castle in Kratzeburg with the Ankershagen castle of the robber baron Henning von Holstein.
Monument protection
The tower hill is a ground monument with the site no. 4 of the Kratzeburg district according to the Monument Protection Act of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Finds are proven: a collection of early German ceramics, saddle hooks, floor pieces, edge shards and two iron arrowheads. An archaeological aerial photograph is available in the State Office's aerial photograph archive.
Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.
literature
- Uwe Schwarz: The fortifications of the 13th to 16th centuries in the Neubrandenburg district. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-326-00234-3 , p. 46.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of soil monuments MV