Tower hill castle Seuckenreuth

Tower hill castle Seuckenreuth
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Noble
Place:	Schwarzenbach on the Saale
Geographical location	50 ° 13 '24.7 "  N , 11 ° 56' 5.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '24.7 "  N , 11 ° 56' 5.5"  E

The Turmhügelburg Seuckenreuth is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in Schwarzenbach an der Saale in the Upper Franconian district of Hof in Bavaria .

The place Seuckenreuth is significant in terms of settlement history, it was located southeast of the Saale and has grown together with the northwestern Schwarzenbach ("Swertzenbach") and merged with it. The moth system served to secure a ford across the Saale. An old road continued over the Kirchberg. The moat was fed from the hall. However, the water level in the Saale is very different, so that flooding may have been a reason for the abandonment of the site. On the opposite bank was the Unterhof residence . The tower hill complex was first expressly mentioned in 1476 in the possession of the von Hirschberg family . According to the Hofer Landbuch of 1502, it was desolate. The area with numerous monuments still bears the street name Am Wallgarten .

See also : List of German hill towers

literature

• Paul Goller: Three medieval fortifications in Schwarzenbach / Saale . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . 44th volume. Bayreuth 1964. pp. 217-230.
• August Strobel: On the early history of the city of Schwarzenbach an der Saale . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . 59th Volume, Bayreuth 1979, pp. 93-154.