Ring wall of Bürgstadter Berg

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Ring wall of the Buergerstadt mountain
Reconstructed gate system on the ring wall to the northeast

Reconstructed gate system on the ring wall to the northeast

Alternative name (s): Wannenberg
Creation time : Prehistoric
Castle type : Höhenburg, ring wall
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Construction: Earth wall and stone gate
Place: Bürgstadt - "Bürgstadter Berg"
Geographical location 49 ° 43 '12.8 "  N , 9 ° 17' 33.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '12.8 "  N , 9 ° 17' 33.5"  E
Height: 463  m above sea level NHN
Ringwall Bürgstadter Berg (Bavaria)
Ring wall of Bürgstadter Berg

The rampart Bürgstadter Mountain is an Outbound prehistoric ring wall at 463  m above sea level. NHN on the eponymous Bürgstadter Berg (actually called Wannenberg ) northeast of Bürgstadt in the Miltenberg district in Bavaria . The rampart is one of the largest of its kind in Mainfranken .

The remains of this mighty rampart can be seen over a length of 3.1 kilometers. In the 1980s, excavations revealed a first settlement of the Michelsberg culture , which dates back to around 3000 BC. BC ( Neolithic ) was created. The core of the complex comes from the late Bronze Age urn field culture (1200 to 800 BC).

Today parts of a double ring wall and ditches are still preserved. A hiking trail of the Archaeological Spessart Project leads past a mighty gate with dry stone cladding and palisades that has been reconstructed according to the original appearance .

Along the wall area there are multiple remains of intensive stone processing in the Middle Ages. Column remains, millstones, sarcophagus parts and the like a. testify to the intensive use of the Odenwald sandstone in the Middle Ages . In the southwest corner there is a natural monument , below this corner are the ruins of the Centgrafenkapelle, which was never completed .

  • Ring wall remains in the east

  • View of the ring wall from the outside on the southwest corner

  • Gate system from the inside

  • The structure of the plant

  • Information board about the excavation and finds in the area of ​​the gate system

literature

  • Ludwig Wamser: Completion of the archaeological investigations on the ring wall on the Bürgstadter Berg . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria 1988 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, p. 66 ff.
  • Christoph Rytka: A section through the ring wall on the Bürgstadter Berg . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria 1987 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, p. 65 ff.
  • Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (edit.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume VI . Lower Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.). Munich 1985.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Lower Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 6). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1979, ISBN 3-7847-5306-X , p. 129.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mainhölle & Bildermeer cultural trail around the town center of the Spessart project with explanations through history boards
  2. ^ The ring wall on the Bürgstadter Berg: Bürgstädter Berg - History & Archeology at burglandschaft.de ; accessed again on March 6, 2019