Section fortification Altenburg

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Section fortification Altenburg
Creation time : Early medieval
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Castle stable, wall and moat remains
Place: Heroldsbach corridor "Altenburg"
Geographical location 49 ° 41 '55.5 "  N , 10 ° 59' 24.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '55.5 "  N , 10 ° 59' 24.4"  E
Height: 362  m above sea level NHN
Section fortification Altenburg (Bavaria)
Section fortification Altenburg

The section fortification Altenburg is an abandoned early medieval fortification at 362  m above sea level. NHN , about 850 meters northwest of the church in Heroldsbach in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification, ceramic fragments from the interior of the complex date from the early Middle Ages. Only a double wall system with ditches has survived from the complex. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6331-0001: early medieval section fortification "Altenburg" .

description

The hill fort is located on the south-eastern edge of a wide, west-east-facing mountain ridge in the Altenburg forest there . The east and south sides of the facility descend moderately steeply to the valley of the Hirtenbach , which is around 80  meters lower , in the west there is a saddle, the north side merges almost flatly into the adjoining mountain ridge. The two endangered sides in the west and in the north were secured by a now heavily flattened semicircular wall with a trench . The western end of the wall merges into a step on the mountain slope. The wall is still up to 1.3 meters high with a width of five meters, the trench is just as wide, the difference in height between the bottom of the trench and the ridge is 1.7 meters. About 25 meters within the course of the rampart, a second parallel stone rampart was created, which today is only flat. The inner wall has no connection to the outer wall at the edge of the fortification. In the west and in the north there are wall breakthroughs, the ditch is leveled there, these passages were probably created recently.

The inner surface of the 170 by 150 meter large facility slopes down to the south and is disturbed in places by sand pits, in the east and south flat steps can be seen.

literature

  • Björn-Uwe Abels : Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0373-3 , p. 141.
  • Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 90.

Web links

  • Entry on Altenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia. P. 90.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Heroldsbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)
  4. ↑ Location of the ramparts in the Bavaria Atlas (here referred to as prehistoric complex)