Tower hill castle Teinitz

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Tower hill castle Teinitz
Creation time : Medieval
Castle type : Hill castle, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, tower hill, moat
Place: Weidenberg - Gossenreuth
Geographical location 49 ° 57 '45.1 "  N , 11 ° 43' 25.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '45.1 "  N , 11 ° 43' 25.2"  E
Height: 525  m above sea level NHN
Tower Castle Teinitz (Bavaria)
Tower hill castle Teinitz

The Turmhügelburg Teinitz is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle from the type of a motte (moth) on a 525  m above sea level. NHN high mountain spur on the Altstraße above the Königsheide about 100 meters south-southeast of the center of Gossenreuth , a district of the Markt Weidenberg in the Bayreuth district in Bavaria .

The owners of the castle, the name of which is derived from the Slavic “tynec”, which means “small castle”, were named the lords of Tanndorf in the 15th century and the lords of Künßberg in the 16th century .

The tower hill and the moat are still preserved from the former moth enclosure . The castle site is now protected as a ground monument number D-4-6036-0005: Medieval tower hill .

literature

  • Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district . Published by the district of Bayreuth, Ellwanger Druck und Verlag, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-63-0 , pp. 98 and 103.
  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .

Web links

  • Entry on Teinitz in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the tower hill in the Bavaria Atlas
  2. ^ Rüdiger Bauriedel, Ruprecht Konrad-Röder: Medieval fortifications and low-nobility mansions in the Bayreuth district. P. 98.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Weidenberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 144 kB)