Wallberg tower hill

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Wallberg tower hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill
Place: Gefrees - Streitau
Geographical location 50 ° 6 ′ 51.5 "  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 19.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 51.5 "  N , 11 ° 42 ′ 19.8"  E
Height: 543  m above sea level NHN
Wallberg Tower (Bavaria)
Wallberg tower hill

The Tower Hill Wallenberg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle of the type of a motte (moth) at 543  m above sea level. NHN immediately north of Streitau , a district of the Gefrees community in the Bayreuth district in Bavaria .

description

The tower hill is on the spur of the Wallberg, which protrudes to the southeast over Streitau. Except for the north-west side, the mountain falls with a moderately steep slope, the north side was secured by a section wall with a trench in front . This section fortification, which runs in a straight line from west to east, is severely disturbed today, most of the wall has been removed and the 15 meter wide trench has been filled.

The area of ​​the tower hill measures 28 by 19 meters, it has a berm 1.8 meters lower on the west and south side and five meters wide . This berm is followed by a second, ten meters wide and again 1.5 meters lower. Today there is no fortification on the east side.

Today the tower hill is registered as a ground monument D-4-5836-0016 "Medieval tower hill" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Published by the district of Bayreuth, Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , pp. 80 and 92.
  • 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 , p. 139 .
  • 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. 128.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Upper Franconia. P. 128.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Gefrees (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)