Roßhof tower hill

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Roßhof tower hill
Alternative name (s): Rossberg
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, built over
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Großheubach - Roßhof
Geographical location 49 ° 44 '46.4 "  N , 9 ° 13' 18.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '46.4 "  N , 9 ° 13' 18.2"  E
Roßhof tower hill (Bavaria)
Roßhof tower hill

The tower hill Roßhof , also known as Rossberg , is an old medieval tower hill castle (Motte) near Roßhof , a current district of the market town of Großheubach in the Miltenberg district in Bavaria .
The tower hill was leveled in 1975 and the castle site with the riding stables of the Rosshof was built over.

description

An aerial photo from the 1960s, showing the remains of a building, supports the assumption that a tower hill castle was built in the first half of the 14th century. The builder of the facility was either Heinrich or Wiprecht Rüd von Rüdenau , a family of servants who originally called themselves "von Amorbach". As documented, they called themselves from 1281 "male dogs". The castle probably had the appearance of the Templar house in Amorbach .

Still interpreted as a Roman castell in 1842 , remnants of the ramparts were 200 paces long, which means a radius of about 19 meters and an area of ​​about 1100 square meters, which fits well with the areas of small castles. Foundation walls, colored remains of vessels and weapons are said to have been found here.

literature

  • Wolfgang Hartmann: Who were the gentlemen from Kesselberg . In: Spessart-Zeitschrift 09/2012 (106th volume), pp. 17-21.
  • Werner Trost: The Rosshof near Großheubach am Main and its history . Amorbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-937996-32-5 .
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 133.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samuel Christoph Wagner: Handbook of the most excellent antiquities from pagan times discovered in Germany , Weimar 1842, p. 444. This refers to (Steiner) (probably to Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner : History and topography of the Maing area and the Spessart under the Romans , Darmstadt 1834). Retrieved May 7, 2018