Schanzel tower hill

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Location of the Schanzl tower on the first Bavarian recording from 1843

The Schanzel tower hill , also known as Waldauer Schanzl or Schwedenschanzl , is located near Untertresenfeld north of the Vohenstrauss - Untertresenfeld - Waldau road in the Upper Palatinate . Presumably it corresponded to a moth , as it was reconstructed with a wooden tower on an artificial tower hill in the Bärnau-Tachov Historical Park . The medieval tower hill is a listed ground monument (D-3-6339-0015) by Vohenstrauss. Since 1990 there has been a display there about the Schanzel.

history

After the Bavarian first recording in 1836, the facility was on an old road that came from Luhe and Kaimling via Waldau am Schanzel to Waldthurn and then on to Bohemia . In the first photo , this road is drawn as a deep ravine that led from the Schafwiesweg over the rear Thurmbühl (possibly another fortification, about which there is no news) to the former sheep farm of Waldau. In 1977 the ravine was filled in as part of the land consolidation and thus these traces have been lost.

“The Schanzel is the rest of an old castle stable . It consists of a square core, which is flattened at the top and about ten meters on the side. All four sides still have steep slopes today. A deep trench runs around this core plant, on the outer wall of which there was formerly a wall that spanned the entire plant. "

- Quoted from Rudolf Großmann, Vohenstrausser Flurdenkmäler Grave for plague victims from Waldau . In Onetz on September 2, 2016

Only remains of the wall are preserved. Particularly on the west, north and east sides, parts of it have been removed by agricultural activities. The circumference of the moat was around 100 meters. The ramparts were fortified with palisades. Inside the wall was a hill 40 by 40 meters. The inner hill was up to nine meters high and twelve meters in diameter and had a wooden tower on it.

The "Schanzl" was first mentioned in a document in 1396 in a Leuchtenberg fief book . Allegedly, the Swedes built a permanent position there during the Thirty Years War , before they had destroyed the under counter field. In 1955, the master distiller at Schlossgut Waldau found a coin with the year 1614 not far from the Schanzel. During excavations at the valley floor, human skeletons and also bones of horses and horseshoes came to light. According to the vernacular, the plague dead from Waldau are buried in the "Schanzel". Another tradition reports that around 1799 a military hospital for Bavarian troops was set up in Waldau Castle . Suddenly typhus or the dysentery began to rage here and in a short time carried away 300 soldiers. These victims were then buried in the "Schwedenschanzl".

literature

  • Bergler, Franz: Waldthurn: Lordship, market and parish - in the service of the homeland. Spintler, Weiden 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments by Vohenstrauß, accessed on May 5, 2019

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 56.7 "  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 43.8"  E