Laichstätt Tower Hill

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Laichstätt Tower Hill
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of the tower hill
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Cham - Laichstätt
Geographical location 49 ° 12 '54.2 "  N , 12 ° 35' 55"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '54.2 "  N , 12 ° 35' 55"  E
Height: 362  m above sea level NHN
Laichstätt Tower Hill (Bavaria)
Laichstätt Tower Hill

The Tower Hill Laichstätt is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) next to the rain on the northern edge of the district Laichstätt the city of Cham in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

History and layout

The construction of the moth can be dated to the 12th century. It was presumably the seat of a Diepolding family of ministers and was used as a waiting room until the late Middle Ages, as the name of the field “near the guard ditch” suggests.

The former castle complex still shows the remains of a tower hill with a lower diameter of 14 meters, an upper diameter of 6 meters and a height of only 1.1 to 1.7 meters. The small area only suggests a building with a tower. The Burgstall is now 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 , p. 316.

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