Pirk Tower Hill

Pirk Tower Hill
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Castle stable, tower hill with moat and rampart preserved
Place:	Pirk - Pirkerziegelhütte - "Schlossleiten"
Geographical location	49 ° 38 '13.7 "  N , 12 ° 11' 9.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '13.7 "  N , 12 ° 11' 9.2"  E
Height:	460  m above sea level NHN

The Tower Hill Pirk is an Outbound medieval motte (moth), approximately 615 meters east of the Pirker brick cottage , in the municipality of Pirk in Upper Palatinate Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval. From the well-preserved complex at the upper end of a small valley in the plateau on the Öd, a rectangular tower hill and a moat with an outer wall have been preserved. The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6339-0011: "Medieval tower hill".

description

The wooded castle site between the forest fields of Schlossleiten in the north and Schlossholz in the south is located at around 460  m above sea level. NN height in a corner of an agricultural clearing. It is located a few meters above the valley floor on the slightly descending northern slope of a small valley sloping to the west-northwest, which rises and ends a little east of the castle to the Jura plateau Auf der Öd.

The well-preserved, rectangular tower hill with rounded corners measures 25 × 15 meters at its base and still reaches a height of three meters. Its plateau is heavily ransacked, the whereabouts of finds of medieval ceramic fragments from robbery excavations is unknown today. A ring trench eight meters wide and 0.5 meters deep runs around the tower hill . On the valley side in the south of the facility, an outer wall is placed in front of this ditch as an additional approach obstacle. The wall is broken only at the southwest corner by a drain of a small channel.

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. 233.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ List of monuments for Pirk (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 383 kB)
3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
4. ^ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 233