Tower hill castle Schönfels
| Tower hill castle Schönfels | ||
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 Former hill tower complex in Schönfels |
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| Alternative name (s): | Island, well, whale | |
| Creation time : | after 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, Motte, location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, Bühl | |
| Place: | Light fir - Schönfels | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 40 '49 " N , 12 ° 23' 36.7" E | |
| Height: | 330 m above sea level HN | |
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The tower hill castle Schönfels , also called Insel, Wohl, Wal , is a lost moated castle in the district of Schönfels of the municipality of Lichtentanne in the district of Zwickau in Saxony .
In the southern part of the Talmühlteich in the Plexgrund there are remains of a tower hill castle (Motte) from the time of the German eastern settlement . The clearly visible Bühl with a size of approx. 15 × 16 m comes from a medieval water castle on the Plexe, the Schönfelser Bach. Today's Burgstall (castle site) of the former tower hill castle only shows the Bühl as an island and a moat as part of the pond.
The created dam separates the pond area from the stream. The path to Gospersgrün runs on the southern part . The entrance to the tower hill castle was probably on the eastern side of the island. The steep fortifications with stones are clearly visible there.
Away from Gospersgrün in the Plexgrund
View from the south-west
Stone ramp on the way
Stone ramp on the island
literature
- Walter Schlesinger (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 8: Saxony (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 312). Unchanged reprint of the 1st edition 1965. Kröner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-520-31201-8 .
Web links
- In the footsteps of the past via hill towers in the Zwickau area
- Entry on the tower castle Schönfels in the private database "All castles". Retrieved March 22, 2018.