Tower hill Otterskirchen

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Tower hill Otterskirchen
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 Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '25.1 "  N , 13 ° 17' 19.1"  E
Height: 390  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Otterskirchen (Bavaria)
Tower hill Otterskirchen

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. List of monuments for Windorf (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 historic terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 253