Tower hill castle Autengrün

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Tower hill castle Autengrün
View of the tower hill with the moat

View of the tower hill with the moat

Castle type : Niederungsburg, Motte, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Auten green
Geographical location 50 ° 15 '19.4 "  N , 11 ° 54' 34.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '19.4 "  N , 11 ° 54' 34.3"  E
Tower hill castle Autengrün (Bavaria)
Tower hill castle Autengrün

The tower hill castle Autengrün is a defunct tower castle (Motte) in Autengrün in the district of Hof ( Bavaria ).

From the moth , a small four-sided island surrounded by a round moat with trees is still visible. The moat has an outer wall in the east. The Motte is at a crossroads at the entrance to Oberkotzau at the junction to Wendler behind a farm. The Burgstall is a ground monument .

The tower hill castle belonged to the von Kotzau family . The family received the place in 1402 from the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich as an imperial fief. In 1414 the place, which had three courtyards in 1390, was a desert . The tower hill and the adjoining manor formed a fore . In 1609 the tower hill castle fell victim to a fire. In 1666 a granary was built from the stones from the ruins in Oberkotzau. The foundation walls on site were still visible in 1780.

literature

  • August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . German art publisher . Munich 1960, p. 37.
  • Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East . Heroldsberg 1984. p. 337.
  • 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. 105.
  • Werner Risser: It was like that! - Fragments of a chronicle of the Oberkotzau market (so-called Lörner chronicle ). P. 23.

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