Tower Hill Stein (Lichtenfels)

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Tower hill stone
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Place: Lichtenfels - stone
Geographical location 50 ° 8 '0 "  N , 11 ° 4' 55.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '0 "  N , 11 ° 4' 55.5"  E
Height: 280  m above sea level NN
Tower Hill Stein (Bavaria)
Tower hill stone

The Tower Hill Stone is the residue of a dialed Turmhügelburg (moth) on the northern edge of the wilderness of the same stone , a local part of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria , Germany . Little information is known about this Niederungsburg , it is roughly dated as medieval . The castle name "Stein" was first mentioned in 1411 in a Lichtenfels document . Only the tower hill has survived from the castle. The site is protected as ground monument number D-4-5832-0064: Medieval tower hill .

description

The castle site is located at the foot of the mountain called "Klentsch", slightly elevated above the valley floor of the Leuchsenbach , just before the confluence of the Steinsbächlein. The tower hill reaches a height of five meters and is located on an artificially created small spur on the mountain slope. The former small castle was originally enclosed on three sides by the course of the Leuchsenbach, and thus protected by this moat up to the southwest side. Today, however, the tower hill is a few meters away from the stream, as it was straightened around 1930.

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 of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , p. 113.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Lichtenfels (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 192 kB)
  3. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Wanderings in Meranierland am Obermain - A Guide to Archaeological and Monuments of the Early and High Middle Ages , p. 113