Münchberg tower hill

Münchberg tower hill
Creation time :	around 1100
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Münchberg
Geographical location	50 ° 11 '25.5 " N , 11 ° 47' 22.7" E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '25.5 " N , 11 ° 47' 22.7" E

The Tower Hill Münchberg is an Outbound , visible only in remnants Turmhügelburg (Motte) in Münchberg in the Bavarian district of Hof .

The castle complex is said to have been in the Pulschnitz valley in the corner between Bahnhofstrasse and Kirchenlamitzer Strasse.

The Motte was founded around 1100 to secure the settlement. The side length of its core mound is estimated at seventeen, the width of the surrounding trench at ten and its depth at around two meters. Nothing is left of the system. Presumably there was a manor house near the tower at the buildings Bahnhofstrasse 11 and 13 and Ottostrasse 1, 3 and 5 according to Karl Dietel .

Not until 1408, in the oldest surviving register of the city and office of Muenchberg, was there a record of this tower hill. It lists the "whale in front of instead of on the Pulsnitz, umbfangen with a moat" that was in the possession of the burgrave of Nuremberg at the time. The former area of the tower hill was in what is now Bahnhofstrasse 7 (rear building). The manor was right next to it. In the middle of the 16th century a Cristoff Ruxteschell from the suburb of Muenchberg bought the so-called “wall, so surrounded by a moat” from a Hans Roedel.

literature

Karl Dietel : Tower hill in the heart of the Münchberger valley . tape 41 . Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 1963.