Turmhügel Göttersdorf
Osterhofen
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- Osterhofen
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Bodendenkmal in Osterhofen, #D-2-7343-0212 stands in Osterhofen (Landkreis Deggendorf), in Bavaria, Germany. No visits are on record for this building.
The Turmhügel Göttersdorf is an early medieval motte, now absorbed into a residential district of Osterhofen in Bavaria. Nothing remains above ground of either the original fortified tower or the baroque Schloss that the Fugger counts built here from 1681: the mansion was torn down after 1834 and the mound itself levelled. What survives, buried beneath a private house on Schloßbergstraße, is the former Romanesque chapel of St George, its barrel vault and semicircular apse still intact under the floor. Visiting the site today means reading a landscape rather than touring a building: a mound still traceable beside the river Vils, and the memory of a manor that vanished.
What to know
- No building can be visited: the Schloss was demolished after 1834 and the area is now covered by private houses.
- The St George chapel, buried beneath a private house on Schloßbergstraße, is not open to the public.
- The mound itself, several metres high beside the river Vils, remains visible from public ground.
- No facts are given regarding opening hours, admission fees or accessibility for this site.
- The interest of the place is mainly archaeological and historical rather than architectural.
Where this château is
Osterhofen · Landkreis Deggendorf · Bayern
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Address
Osterhofen, Landkreis Deggendorf
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- Heritage status
- Protection status unknown
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Frequently asked
- Can you visit the Turmhügel Göttersdorf?
- There is no open building to visit: only the mound can be seen from outside, as the surviving chapel lies buried beneath a private house.
- What remains of Schloss Göttersdorf?
- The Schloss built from 1681 by the Fugger family was demolished after 1834; only the Romanesque St George chapel survives, incorporated into the foundations of a present-day house.
- Where is the Turmhügel Göttersdorf located?
- In Göttersdorf, a district of Osterhofen in the Deggendorf district of Bavaria, beside the river Vils.
- How old is the motte?
- The mound dates to the late 11th century, while the baroque Schloss that later stood on it was built in the 17th century.
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