Lamberg tower hill

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Lamberg tower hill
Creation time : High Middle Ages
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Wall and moat remains
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Cham- Haderstadl
Geographical location 49 ° 11 '56.1 "  N , 12 ° 43' 2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '56.1 "  N , 12 ° 43' 2"  E
Height: 602  m above sea level NN
Tower Hill Lamberg (Bavaria)
Lamberg tower hill

The Tower Hill Lamberg is an Outbound hilltop castle from the type of a motte (moth) on the 602 meter summit of Lamberges in the area of the previous castle moat Stalls in the district rag barn of the city Cham in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The high medieval ( moth system ) was probably built as the youngest fortification on the Lamberg. The exact time of construction is not known because of the archaeological investigation that has not yet been carried out, but is probably after the castle of the early to high Middle Ages, which is known as the Burgstall Wallgraben, as it reshapes the edge fortifications of the castle stable .

The tower hill and the castle stable are also located in the area of ​​the only known prehistoric fortification in the Cham district, which is known as the Kleine and Große Schanz.

description

The tower hill has a diameter of seven to eight meters on its round plateau and rises about two meters above the level of the castle stables and moat. The Burgstall is now a ground monument .

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle building in the south-eastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period . Catalog. tape 2 . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 117-119 .