Tower hill Rüssenbach
| Tower hill Rüssenbach | |
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 Rüssenbach Tower Hill - View from the northeast (September 2013) |
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| Creation time : | Mentioned in 1129 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall |
| Place: | Ebermannstadt - Rüssenbach |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 46 '19.8 " N , 11 ° 9' 33.4" E |
| Height: | 310 m above sea level NHN |
The tower hill Rüssenbach is a lost moated castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) on the northern edge of Rüssenbach , a district of the market Ebermannstadt in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria .
The castle, mentioned in 1129 and destroyed in the Peasants' War in 1525 , was the ancestral seat of the von Rüssenbach family ; later it came to the Stiebar von Buttenheim .
Nothing has survived from the former moth .
literature
- Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
- Hellmut Kunstmann . The castles of south-western Franconian Switzerland , Degener & Co., 1990.
Web links
- Entry on Rüssenbach in the private database "Alle Burgen".
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Fortifications: Forchheim Fortress
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Manor houses: Manor Dormitz (sold) | Steinhaus mansion (Dormitz) (sold) | Hammermühle Manor (sold) | Walkersbrunn manor (sold) | Wannbach manor
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Fortified churches: Fortified Church Burk (Holy Three Kings) | Fortified Church Dormitz (Our Dear Lady) | Fortified church Ebermannstadt (St. Nikolaus) | Fortified church Effeltrich (St. Georg) | Fortified church Eggolsheim (St. Martin) | Kersbach fortified church (St. Johannes Baptist and St. Ottilie) | Fortified church Kirchrüsselbach (St. Jakobus) | Fortified church Langensendelbach (St. Peter and Paul) | Pautzfeld fortified church (Assumption of Mary) | Fortified church Pinzberg (St. Nikolaus) | Willersdorf fortified church (St. Bartholomäus)