Tröglersricht tower hill

Tröglersricht tower hill
Creation time :	Medieval
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, trench remains
Place:	Weiden in the Upper Palatinate - Tröglersricht
Geographical location	49 ° 40 '24.4 "  N , 12 ° 12' 22.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '24.4 "  N , 12 ° 12' 22.8"  E
Height:	470  m above sea level NHN

The tower hill Tröglersricht is an abandoned medieval tower hill castle (Motte) on the western edge of Tröglersricht (house no. 4), a current district of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

description

The castle site is located on the slope of the Fischerberg sloping west to the valley of the Waldnaab on a tongue-like protruding spur hill. The flat surface of the hill has a size of 25 by 25 meters. On the slope side there is still a wide remnant of a trench, on the mountain side this is filled and partially built over.

Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-3-6339-0005 "Medieval Castle Stables" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments : Volume III. Upper Palatinate, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.), R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1986, p. 52.
• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 77.

Web links

• Entry on Tröglersricht in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate. P. 77.
3. ↑ List of monuments for pastures in the Upper Palatinate (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 164 kB)