Roßbach tower hill

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Roßbach tower hill
Creation time : 1100 to 1200
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Chamerau -Bärndorf-Roßbach
Geographical location 49 ° 12 '13.2 "  N , 12 ° 45' 8.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '13.2 "  N , 12 ° 45' 8.9"  E
Height: 380  m above sea level NHN
Roßbach Tower (Bavaria)
Roßbach tower hill

The Tower Hill Rossbach is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in the district Bärndorf on the slopes of the mountain Eyer-thirty feet above the mouth of the Roßbaches in the rain at the farm Rossbach the municipality Chamerau in Upper Palatinate district of Cham in Bavaria .

history

The first owners of the castle, which was probably built in the 12th century , are assumed to be the lords of Roßbach, who can be traced back to 1118 to 1200 and who were related ministers of the Margraves of Cham ( Diepoldinger-Rapotonen ). 1500 The following members were of dog Duke Albrecht IV. With the castle invested .

description

The Burgstall , today a ground monument , the former moth enclosure with a diameter of 30 meters shows only a flattened plateau. Major parts were removed during the construction of the railway in 1892 and the remains of the ramparts and ditches that were still recognizable in the 1970s were leveled and built over.

literature

  • Bernhard Ernst: Castle construction in the southeastern Upper Palatinate from the early Middle Ages to the early modern period, Volume 2: Catalog . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933474-20-5 , pp. 35-36.

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