Seubersdorf tower hill

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Seubersdorf tower hill
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Creation time : 11th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, castle hill
Standing position : unknown
Place: Seubersdorf
Geographical location 50 ° 2 '4.5 "  N , 11 ° 17' 31.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '4.5 "  N , 11 ° 17' 31.8"  E
Height: 493  m above sea level NHN
Seubersdorf tower hill (Bavaria)
Seubersdorf tower hill

The Tower Hill Seubersdorf is a Outbound high medieval motte (moth) unknown-sized assignment at the center of about Weismain belonging village Seubersdorf in the district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria , Germany . Today the Catholic Chapel of St. Michael is located on the still preserved hill. The hill is protected as a ground monument under the number D-4-5933-0036 . A second tower hill in Seubersdorf ( tower hill Seubersdorf II ) is located on the south-eastern outskirts.

history

The Turmhügelburg was built in the 11th century as part of a chain of small fortifications, together with the Lindenberg Castle , the Zultenberg Tower , the Wölkendorf Tower and the Burglesau Tower . It was destroyed in the 14th century.

During excavations in 1960 and 1961, the foundations of a rectangular building and traces of a round tower that must have been destroyed by fire were discovered.

description

The tower hill had a diameter of about 25 meters, a height of about one meter and was surrounded by a probably water-filled ditch .

literature

  • 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 .
  • Thomas Gunzelmann, Klaus Rupprecht: Wölkendorf - village "on the mountain" - on the "way to paradise" - history of rule and settlement geography (online: full text , PDF, 3.6 MB) In: Josef Urban, Hermann Deinhart: Wölkendorf - the village, the chapel, the people - history on the 100th anniversary of the chapel in 2005. Eggolsheim 2005, self-published by the editor, p. 264.
  • Christian Pescheck: Seubersdorf and Schwand, two tower hill excavations in eastern Upper Franconia. 1. Excavation report and find evaluation In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, Volume 43. Bayreuth 1963, pp. 3–7.
  • 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. 124.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments - Weismain - Bodendenkmäler , geodaten.bayern.de, PDF 160 KB, p. 19.
  2. ↑ a b Gunzelmann, Rupprecht (2005), p. 22f.
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Seubersdorf in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  4. ↑ a b Seubersdorf , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 27, 2014