Wilzhofen tower hill

Wilzhofen tower hill
Creation time :	High medieval, called local nobility in 1173
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Wielenbach- Wilzhofen
Geographical location	47 ° 52 '48.6 "  N , 11 ° 10' 57.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '48.6 "  N , 11 ° 10' 57.5"  E
Height:	580  m above sea level NHN

The Tower Hill Wilzhofen called the Outbound high medieval motte (moth) Wilzhofen , north of the church of Wilzhofen, in the municipality of Wielenbach in Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria . Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-8133-0017 "Castle stables of the high and late Middle Ages ('Burg Wilzhofen')" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Immediately north of this castle stable there is also a tower hill with the monument number D-1-8133-0019 "Tower hill of the high Middle Ages".

history

The castle is first mentioned in 1173 in the possession of a respected and widespread noble family, the nobles of Wittelshofen, whose heraldic animal, the wild boar, is still included in the Wielenbach coat of arms. According to the “Pähler Chronicle”, traces of the castle are said to have been visible in the 19th century. Nothing is left of the former moth enclosure today.

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 268 .

Web links

• Entry on Wilzhofen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location of the castle stable in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Wielenbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 131 kB)
3. ↑ Wilzhofen at haunshofen.de