Tower hill Otterskirchen
Tower hill Otterskirchen | ||
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Creation time : | Medieval | |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
Conservation status: | Left, tower hill leveled | |
Place: | Windorf - Otterskirchen | |
Geographical location | 48 ° 37 '25.1 " N , 13 ° 17' 19.1" E | |
Height: | 390 m above sea level NHN | |
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The tower hill Otterskirchen is an Outbound medieval Wasserburg the type of a Turmhügelburg (moth) to 390 m above sea level. NHN in Otterskirchen , a district of the municipality Windorf 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-2-7345-0033 "Leveled medieval tower hill".
description
The castle site is located on the western edge of Otterskirchen in the area between Hofmarkstrasse, Baderstrasse and Kreisstrasse St 2318 on a short side valley of the Deichselbergbach , coming from the east or from Otterskirchen , which rises north on the Ebersberg, and flows into the Danube after a short run . The tower hill is almost completely leveled today. The remnant of the hill, which has only survived very flat, was previously surrounded by a dammed water ditch, a dam bar can still be seen below the castle site.
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 , pp. 252-253.
Web links
- Entry on Otterskirchen in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ List of monuments for Windorf (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 historic terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 253