Wollbach Tower Hill

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Wollbach Tower Hill
Alternative name (s): Tower hill on the lake, waiting tower Wollbach
Creation time : probably 11th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill preserved
Standing position : Ministeriale
Place: Wollbach corridor "Ochsenbühl"
Geographical location 50 ° 22 '14.8 "  N , 10 ° 11' 41.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '14.8 "  N , 10 ° 11' 41.7"  E
Height: 293  m above sea level NN
Wollbach Tower (Bavaria)
Wollbach Tower Hill

The tower hill Wollbach , also called tower hill on the lake and waiting tower Wollbach , is a watch tower , the remainder of which is on the parcel "Ochsenbühl", about 2,270 meters west-northwest of the church of the community of Wollbach in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria .

From the 11th to the 13th century, a Würzburg ministerial (documented in the 13th century) sat on the tower hill at the then lake near "Ochsenbühl" to protect the Würzburg Schweinberg and its partial use and carried a forest ranger ("custos silvae") Forest hooves in the Schweinberg to fief .

The tower mound (Motte) still has a height of about five meters and a diameter of 30 meters. On its west and north sides, the hill has a four meter wide berm .

literature

  • 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. 169.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Björn-Uwe Abels: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, Series B, Volume 6), p. 169