Can you visit the Turmhügel Holztraubach?

The ground can be walked across in an open meadow, but there is no standing structure or visitor facility.

What remains of this old fortification?

Only slight ground undulations survive; no above-ground elements remain.

Where exactly is the site located?

It lies in Holztraubach, part of Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in Lower Bavaria, about 80 metres from the parish church of St. Laurentius.

What is a Turmhügel or motte?

It is an artificial mound surrounded by a moat that once carried a fortified tower, which has since disappeared here.

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Bodendenkmal in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg, #D-2-7239-0121 stands in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg (Landkreis Straubing-Bogen), in Bavaria, Germany. Its opening hours and prices have not been verified at the source yet.

The Turmhügel Holztraubach marks the site of a vanished medieval motte near the parish church of St. Laurentius in the village of Holztraubach, part of the municipality of Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg. Old cadastral maps show it as an almost square mound surrounded by a broad water-filled moat, reached by a bridge from the north. Today only faint undulations remain in an open meadow, with no standing structure left to see.

What to know

Only faint undulations remain visible today in an open meadow, with no standing structure left.
The site lies about 80 metres south-southwest of the parish church of St. Laurentius in Holztraubach.
The Holztraubach stream runs through the site before flowing into the Grafentraubach and then the Kleine Laber.
Old cadastral records show the mound once surrounded by a broad water-filled moat, reached by a bridge from the north.
This is an open-field archaeological site with no visitor infrastructure or facilities.

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Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg · Landkreis Straubing-Bogen · Bayern

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Can you visit the Turmhügel Holztraubach?: The ground can be walked across in an open meadow, but there is no standing structure or visitor facility.
What remains of this old fortification?: Only slight ground undulations survive; no above-ground elements remain.
Where exactly is the site located?: It lies in Holztraubach, part of Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in Lower Bavaria, about 80 metres from the parish church of St. Laurentius.
What is a Turmhügel or motte?: It is an artificial mound surrounded by a moat that once carried a fortified tower, which has since disappeared here.