Rastenhof tower hill

Rastenhof tower hill
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Disappeared, tower hill received
Place:	Störnstein - Rastenhof
Geographical location	49 ° 44 '40.1 " N , 12 ° 11' 59.6" E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '40.1 " N , 12 ° 11' 59.6" E
Height:	467.7 m above sea level NHN

The tower hill Rastenhof is an Outbound medieval Turmhügelburg (moth), immediately northwest to the Rastenhof , a part of the municipality Störnstein in Oberpfalz Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bayern adjacent. No historical or archaeological information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval. A square tower hill and a moat have been preserved from the well-preserved complex halfway up the slope of the Rastenberg . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6239-0033: "Medieval tower hill".

description

The wooded castle site in the castle moat forest is located at 467.7 m above sea level. NN height from 496 m above sea level. NN high Rastenberg to the north-northeast slightly sloping terrain. The well-preserved, rectangular, truncated pyramid-shaped tower hill towers over its surroundings by two meters, with a ditch all around as an obstacle to the approach. This trench reaches a width of seven and a depth of two and a half meters. In the northern half of the trench there is water that enters from two small tributaries at the northwest and east-northeast corner and exits the trench again on the north-northeast side near the northwest corner. The tower hill measures 23 × 20 meters at its base, and its platform is 15 × 13 meters in size.

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 , pp. 230-231.

Individual evidence

^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
↑ List of monuments for Störnstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)
↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
↑ Source description: Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of the Upper Palatinate , p. 230

[1] Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

[2] List of monuments for Störnstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 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. 230