Winkl tower hill

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Winkl tower hill
Creation time : Late medieval
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill, moat
Place: Grabenstätt - Winkl near Grabenstätt
Geographical location 47 ° 50 '3.5 "  N , 12 ° 31' 45"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '3.5 "  N , 12 ° 31' 45"  E
Height: 530  m above sea level NHN
Tower Hill Winkl (Bavaria)
Winkl tower hill

The tower hill Winkl is a late medieval moated castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) on the northwestern outskirts of Winkl near Grabenstätt , west of the road to Grabenstätt in the Traunstein district in Bavaria .

The tower hill with a moat is still preserved from the former moth enclosure , around which a second moat is in front on three sides. Today the site is registered as a ground monument D-1-8141-0034 "Wasserburgstall of the late Middle Ages and the early modern times (" Sitz Winkl ")" by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

Immediately to the south is the early modern Winkl Castle .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: The castles and palaces in the Traunstein district . In: Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces e. V. (Ed.): Castles in the Alps . From the series: Research on Castles and Palaces, Volume 14. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-760-9 , p. 75.
  • Werner Meyer : Castles in Upper Bavaria - A manual . Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-8035-1279-4 , p. 264 .

Web links

  • Entry for Winkl in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Grabenstätt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 135 kB)