Ostergaden tower hill

Ostergaden tower hill
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Hill castle, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower hill
Place:	Altdorf - Ostergaden - "Steinleite"
Geographical location	48 ° 32 '39.2 " N , 12 ° 3' 51.8" E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '39.2 " N , 12 ° 3' 51.8" E
Height:	474 m above sea level NN

The Tower Hill Easter Gaden is Outbound medieval motte (Motte) on the "Steinleite", about 500 meters east-southeast of Easter Gaden , in the municipality of Altdorf in Lower Bavaria district of Landshut in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this hilltop castle , it is roughly dated as medieval. Only a conical castle hill and a moat have survived from the complex on the edge of a steep slope to the broad valley of the Isar . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7438-0127: "Tower hill of the Middle Ages".

description

The wooded castle site in the Hascherholz forest department is around 474 m above sea level. NN height at the upper edge of the Isartalrand, which slopes steeply to the south. The conical castle hill, known as the Schlossberg or Schlossbuckel, was artificially divided, and its plateau still has a diameter of around 12 meters. There is an excavation hole on the plateau, there are no traces of former buildings. The castle hill merges into the steep slope embankment on its south side and was thus naturally well protected. On the north side it is cut off by an arched ditch from the agriculturally used plateau, which slopes slightly to the north. This trench, which serves as an obstacle to the approach, reaches a depth of 2.5 meters from the plateau, while its outer slope rises only one meter.

literature

Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (arr.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments - Volume II: Lower Bavaria . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1986 ISBN 3-486-52393-7 .
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. 203.

Web links

Entry on Ostergaden Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
↑ List of monuments for Altdorf (Lower Bavaria) (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 139 kB)
↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 203

[1] Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

[2] List of monuments for Altdorf (Lower Bavaria) (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 139 kB)

[3] Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas

[4] Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 203