Burgstall section fortification (small vineyard)

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Burgstall section fortification
Creation time : Probably early medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, moat preserved
Place: Pleinfeld - Small wine garden - "Weingartner Berg"
Geographical location 49 ° 6 '7 "  N , 11 ° 0' 12.8"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '7 "  N , 11 ° 0' 12.8"  E
Height: 467  m above sea level NN
Burgstall section fortification (Bavaria)
Burgstall section fortification

The portion fixing Postal is an Outbound probably early medieval Spur castle , which was once on a 467  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur rose above the valley of the Arbach and a small side valley. The rampart is located in a north-westerly direction about 300 meters away from the Kleinweingartener Ortskapelle, a district of the Pleinfeld market in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Bavaria , Germany . Today, from the object protected as ground monument number D-5-6832-0088 “Free-field station of the Mesolithic and section fortifications of the early Middle Ages”, a section wall with a ditch is still preserved. Historical references to this fortification are not known.

description

The section fortification is located in the Burgstall forest department on a westward-facing spur of the Weingartner mountain , which drops steeply to the west into the adjacent valley of the Arbach and on the south side into a short side stream coming from the Kleinweingarten. To the north it is also protected by steep slopes, to the east the mountain merges into a plateau on which there is also a small vineyard.

The rampart is cut off from the plateau by an outwardly curved rampart that is around 90 meters long and extends from the slope edge in the north to the southern edge. A four-meter-wide trench was laid on the outside of the wall, and it is up to one meter deep. The wall has a width of six meters at its base and a height of 1.50 to two meters from the bottom of the trench; from the inner surface of the fortification the wall height is another one meter.

The inner surface of the section fastener is roughly mushroom-like in shape and is 60 to 80 meters long. The edges of the steep drop to the west have probably been artificially steepened. Twelve meters behind the outer wall is another, heavily flattened wall, which may be attributed to an internal fortification.

From the surface of the section attachment, during the Mesolithic the hunter-gatherers as a field station served, few are reading finds known: there have been several Mesolithic flint , an arrowhead made of bronze, and a fragment of a figurine of the late Middle Ages found.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 523 .
  • Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Mischelbach, Markt Pleinfeld: ramparts . In: Konrad Spindler (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - monuments and sites . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0504-3 , p. 99.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gotthard Kießling: District Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, p. 523
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Pleinfeld (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  3. ↑ Location of the fortifications in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ^ Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Mischelbach, Markt Pleinfeld: Wallanlage . In: Konrad Spindler: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - Monuments and sites , p. 99
  5. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation