Tower Hill Castle Hill (Helfenroth)

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Tower Hill Castle Hill
Creation time : 12th Century
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Disappeared, tower hill and trench remains preserved
Standing position : Ministerial Headquarters
Place: Rattelsdorf - Helfenroth - "Castle Hill"
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '34.6 "  N , 10 ° 52' 18.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '34.6 "  N , 10 ° 52' 18.1"  E
Height: 295  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Castle Hill (Bavaria)
Tower Hill Castle Hill

The tower hill castle hill is the rest of the dialed medieval motte (Motte) Help Roth. It is located about 270 meters south of Helfenroth , a district of the Rattelsdorf market in the Bamberg district in Bavaria , Germany . Only a flattened, otherwise well-preserved tower hill and a remnant of a moat in a meadow have survived from the small Helfenroth Castle. The place is protected as ground monument number D-4-5931-0034: "Station of the Old Paleolithic and medieval tower hill".

history

Helfenroth Castle was first mentioned when "Heinricus de Sletine" transferred the "castrum Helfenrode" to Michelsberg Monastery and then received it back as a fief . The later owners were the noble lords of Giech , who owned the castle before 1340. In 1340, Helfenroth Castle was returned to the Michelsberg Monastery and sold to it in 1378. The ministerial seat was given up by 1381 at the latest.

In the 1950s and 1960s, ceramic reading finds were made on the tower hill , which were dated between the 12th and 14th centuries. This reading ceramics consists of local, re-turned, rough-walled turntable goods.

The castle, which probably only consisted of a tower-shaped building, will presumably have served the administration of the imperial wild bans from the Zeilberg , just like the Burgstall Freudeneck , which is only 1250 meters southwest and which has also been abandoned . It was near the old elevated road between Bamberg and Thuringia and it offered a view of the wide valley of the Itz there .

description

The castle site is located at 295  m above sea level. NHN height at the top of a long mountain spur, first to the southeast, then to the east, of the castle hill, which borders the valley of the Itz. In the south the spur is bounded by the valley of a periodically flowing brook, in the north by a dry valley . The tower hill lies on gently sloping meadow terrain in the upper third of the mountain slope and is 308  m above sea level in the west . NHN high summit of the castle hill.

The round tower hill is three meters high and 30 to 40 meters in diameter. The hill was once surrounded by a deep ring moat , which is still five meters wide on the west and south sides, but no longer preserved on the other sides. Today there are two fruit trees on the tower hill.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , pp. 74-75.
  • 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 .

Web links

  • Entry on Castle Hill in the private database "All Castles".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Rattelsdorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 156 kB)
  2. ↑ Source history: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archäologische Streifzüge im Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages , pp. 74–75
  3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ^ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archäologische Streifzüge im Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological monuments and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages , p. 74