Turmhügel Schlosshügel

The Turmhügel Schlosshügel is a vanished medieval motte near Seehöflein in Upper Franconia. It stands on a low spur of a gentle hill, just east of a small hamlet and a few metres above flat meadows. Three sides of the mound once faced a ditch called the Eselsgraben, while the fourth side dropped to a shallow valley.

Little is recorded about the site, but a 19th-century land survey shows a rectangular mound about forty metres long and thirty metres wide. A broad ditch guarded the approach on the north-west, where the entrance once lay. By the mid-19th century a stone building stood on the summit; it was pulled down soon after, and later parts of the mound itself were removed for farm use. Today only a narrow strip, fifteen metres by thirty metres, remains above the surrounding grassland.

The surviving earthworks are protected as a scheduled monument. Visitors can walk the flat fields east of Waldstraße 6 and pick out the low rise that marks the former tower site. From the spur there are wide views across the valley towards Bamberg. The quiet meadows give little hint of the vanished fortress, yet the protected mound still tells its medieval story.