Tower hill castle Woja

Tower hill castle Woja
Tower hill castle Woja
Castle type :	Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status:	Burgstall, little rest
Standing position :	Noble
Place:	Rehau - Woja
Geographical location	50 ° 15 '33.4 "  N , 11 ° 58' 37.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '33.4 "  N , 11 ° 58' 37.5"  E
Height:	530  m above sea level NN

The Turmhügelburg Woja is an Outbound Motte (motte) in Woja , now part of Rehau in the Upper Franconian district of Hof in Bavaria .

An island surrounded by a moat can still be seen from the ramparts in the center of the village . The moat widens to a pond in the south and east. Traces of development are no longer visible. The complex is mentioned in the course of the first documentary mentions of the village in 1390 as the seat and in 1422 as the castle of the von Kotzau family .

The end of the tower hill complex was in 1503. Followers of the church robber Georg Stöhr set fire to the tower hill, it burned down and was never rebuilt. In the same year Georg Stöhr had robbed the Jakobuskirche in Oberkotzau , he was caught and burned as a punishment. In revenge, his followers set fire to the church, whereupon the church roof and several adjacent houses burned down. In addition to Woja, they also set fire to the Kotzauer's seats in Wurlitz , Kautendorf and Höfen in Fletschenreuth .

A wide moat island

See also

• List of German hilltop castles

literature

• Michael Brix , Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Former district of Rehau and town of Selb . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, XXXIV. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1974. p. 94.
• Reinhard Höllerich : Former district of Rehau and formerly district-free city of Selb . Historical book of place names of Bavaria , Volume 3, Munich 1977. P. 91f.
• Wilhelm Malter : Upper Franconia East . Heroldsberg 1984. p. 423.

Web links

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• Aerial photo with the BayernViewer