Lughof Tower Hill

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Lughof Tower Hill
The castle site on an enlarged section of the Bavarian premiere (1808 to 1864)

The castle site on an enlarged section of the Bavarian premiere (1808 to 1864)

Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, Turmhügelburg, Wasserburg
Conservation status: Disappeared, island with water-filled moat preserved
Place: Ortenburg - Lughof
Geographical location 48 ° 30 '56.1 "  N , 13 ° 14' 35"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '56.1 "  N , 13 ° 14' 35"  E
Height: 360  m above sea level NHN
Lughof Tower Hill (Bavaria)
Lughof Tower Hill

The Tower Hill Lughof is an Outbound medieval moated castle from the type of a motte (moth) at 360  m above sea level. NHN near Lughof , a district of the municipality of Ortenburg in the district of Passau in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this castle. It is roughly dated as medieval . The site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7445-0028 "Medieval tower hill".

description

The castle site is located in the wide valley of the Hübinger Bach , immediately north of Lughof. It consists of an island with a diameter of 15 meters, which is completely surrounded by a moat filled with water .

literature

  • Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (edit.), Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Niederbayern. (= Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments . Volume II). R. Oldenbourg Verlag , 1985.
  • Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Laßleben , Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 240.

Web links

  • Entry for Lughof in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. List of monuments for Ortenburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 158 kB)
  3. Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historic terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 240