Tower hill mantle

Tower hill mantle
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower hill with moat preserved
Place:	Mantel -Rupprechtsreuth
Geographical location	49 ° 39 '42.4 "  N , 12 ° 4' 5.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '42.4 "  N , 12 ° 4' 5.5"  E
Height:	422  m above sea level NHN

The tower hill jacket is a Outbound medieval motte (moth), about 800 meters east-southeast of Rupprecht Reuth , in the municipality of coat in the Upper Palatinate in Neustadt an der Waldnaab of Bavaria . It is 2305 meters away from Mantel in an east-northeast direction. No historical or archaeological information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval.

The square 2.5 m high hill with a 5 m wide ring trench lies on a gentle north-west inclined slope of the primary rock surface . Its base measures 16 × 16 meters. There is a deep funnel trench on the platform.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 231.