Siegerstetten tower hill

Siegerstetten tower hill
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Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, tower hill
Place:	Kumhausen - Siegerstetten
Geographical location	48 ° 29 '54.4 "  N , 12 ° 10' 19.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '54.4 "  N , 12 ° 10' 19.8"  E
Height:	450  m above sea level NHN

The tower hill Siegerstetten is an abandoned tower hill castle (Motte) about 420 meters west-northwest of the center of Siegerstetten , a district of the municipality of Kumhausen in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval . Only a castle hill and a heavily flooded castle moat have survived from the system on the edge of the brook of a tributary of the Roßbach . The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7539-0070: "Tower Hill of the Middle Ages".

description

The wooded castle site is located at around 450  m above sea level. NN Höhe directly on the bank of a small stream that runs in the valley between the vineyard in the west and a ridge with the village of Siegerstetten. The tower hill is located at a bend in the stream that runs in front of the tower hill in a west-northwest direction and bends on the hill in a northerly direction of flow. The rectangular, truncated pyramid-shaped tower hill rises in the source horizon at the foot of a ridge facing northwest or from the valley floor from 3.2 to 5.2 meters high. The hill, made of gravelly clay, has an almost flat plateau with dimensions of ten meters in north-south direction and six meters in east-west direction. This plateau has a slight excavation on its west side, traces of former buildings are no longer there. The tower hill was secured against the eastern, at first moderately, then steeply rising foreland by a horseshoe-shaped trench dug out of the mountainside as an obstacle to the approach. At the northeast and southeast corner of the tower hill, the moat bends to the west and runs towards the stream. This trench is largely flooded today and, due to its location in the spring horizon, is also moist in the summer months. The depth of the trench is only 1 to 1.5 meters measured from its bottom to the plateau surface, and 1.5 meters towards the outside of the mountain slope. The roughly equal height of the trench edges suggests that the tower hill was made from the material of the trench excavation. In the creek bed pieces of bricks can still be found in the area of ​​the tower hill, but since they are not available upstream, they are probably from the earlier castle complex. About 30 meters north of the tower hill there is another rounded elevation on the bank of the stream. It is also separated from the mountainside by a trough-shaped ditch that is only barely recognizable. It is not known whether it is an artificially created facility or a facility belonging to the tower hill.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 218.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ List of monuments for Kumhausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)
3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
4. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 218