Schimmendorf tower hill

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Schimmendorf tower hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill, moat
Place: Mainleus - Schimmendorf -Flur "Burgstall"
Geographical location 50 ° 9 '27.6 "  N , 11 ° 21' 53.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '27.6 "  N , 11 ° 21' 53.8"  E
Height: 464  m above sea level NHN
Schimmendorf tower hill (Bavaria)
Schimmendorf tower hill

The Tower Hill mold village is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on 464  m above sea level. NHN of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) in the corridor area "Burgstall" about 600 meters northeast of the center of the village Schimmendorf , a current district of the market Mainleus in the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria .

The tower hill and a moat are still preserved from the former moth enclosure .

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad: Medieval fortifications and noble residences in the district of Kulmbach . Published by the district of Kulmbach, Neudrossenfeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033354-5 , pp. 128 and 176.
  • 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 .
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 117.

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