Willanzheim Tower Hill

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Willanzheim Tower Hill
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, trench remains
Place: Willanzheim- Hagenmühle hallway "An der Burg"
Geographical location 49 ° 40 '53.5 "  N , 10 ° 14' 8.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '53.5 "  N , 10 ° 14' 8.1"  E
Height: 250  m above sea level NN
Tower Hill Willanzheim (Bavaria)
Willanzheim Tower Hill

The Tower Hill Willanzheim is an Outbound medieval motte (moth) about 1,100 meters south-southwest of the Church of Willanzheim in Hagenmühle in the district of Kitzingen in Bavaria . In Willanzheim there is the so-called Burgstall Willanzheim next to the tower hill . Both systems were mixed up at times.

Geographical location

The castle site is located on the slope edge that slopes south to the valley of the Breitbach .

history

The history of the tower hill is closely linked to that of Willanzheim. As early as the High Middle Ages , a family of servants sat here, the Lords of Willanzheim, who were first mentioned in 1137 with Gerung. Gerung donated his castle to the bishopric or cathedral chapter of Würzburg in 1140 . The cathedral chapter then gave the complex to various noble families as fiefs . All the nobles were still sitting near the local church in what is now the Burgstall.

Only in the course of the acquisition of the "Veste" Willanzheim by Emperor Charles IV in the 14th century was the rule of the village split. One family lived in the Burgstall on the outskirts, the other built a pond near the Hagenmühle. Only Hans von Wenkheim managed to unite both castles in 1428. In the following years the Wenkheim family lived in both castles. However, the younger Weiherhaus, today's tower hill, was probably given up again in the 16th century. Today the tower hill is listed as a ground monument .

description

The diameter of the tower hill is another 30 by 20 meters, on its north side it was separated from the slightly rising plateau by a now shallow ditch . Remains of wall 2.2 meters wide and a layer of fire 0.2 meters thick have survived beneath the surface; they were cut in 1953 during drainage work.

literature

  • Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (edit.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume VI. Lower Franconia . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1986.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 113.
  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Hrsg.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments, Volume 27: Würzburg, Karlstadt, Iphofen, Schweinfurt . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Mainz 1977, p. 179.
  • Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2012, p. 312.
  • Sebastian Zeißner: Contributions to the history of Main Franconian castles . In: Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst Vol. 6. (= Archive of the Historical Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg Vol. 77) . Verlag Karl Hart, Volkach 1954, pp. 106–128.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeißner, Sebastian: Posts main Frankish castles to history . P. 126.
  2. ↑ Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of Lower Franconia , p. 113