Section fortification Dornig

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Section fortification Dornig
Creation time : Early medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Disappeared, ramparts and moats preserved
Place: Bad Staffelstein - Stublang - "Thorny"
Geographical location 50 ° 4 '8.3 "  N , 11 ° 2' 3.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '8.3 "  N , 11 ° 2' 3.7"  E
Height: 502.5  m above sea level NN
Section fortification Dornig (Bavaria)
Section fortification Dornig

The section fortification Dornig is a defunct early medieval fortification on the northern tip of the eponymous mountain Dornig , a very long and narrow mountain tongue between two brook valleys cut deep into the Franconian Alb . It is located about 1300 meters south-southwest of the Catholic branch church St. Gumbert and Nikolaus in the Stublang district of the city of Bad Staffelstein in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification. The complex, described in older literature as prehistoric , is roughly dated as medieval today and, due to the structural features, was probably built and used during the early Middle Ages or in the Carolingian - Ottonian period. A double section fortification has been preserved from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5932-0051: Section fortification of the Middle Ages .

description

The 115 meter long and maximum 65 meter wide fortification is located at 502.5  m above sea level. NN altitude and thus around 200  meters above the valley floor of the Lauterbach and its side valleys on the north-northeast facing tip of the Dornig. The approximately five kilometers long, north-west facing mountain tongue of the Dornig tapers at its end and changes direction after a slight saddle to the north-northeast. Three sides of the fortification are naturally well protected by the steep slope of the slopes, only the attack side in the south-southwest had to be specially secured. For this purpose, a 65-meter-long straight section wall was created 115 meters in front of the mountain peak, which connects to the slope edge in the west, but does not quite reach it in the east. At this wall end there is an artificially sloping edge of the terrain at right angles, so that a gate lane was created between it and the edge of the slope. A trench five meters wide and only 0.5 meters deep was laid on the outside of this 1.5 meter high wall.

65 times 45 to 50 meters wide inner surface of this outer ward is connected at its edge by a West only weakly pronounced edge bead at the edge of the slope artificially versteilten with the inner fastening system. The east side, on the other hand, has only one steep slope edge. About 45 meters after the outer section wall, the mountain spur is crossed by a second fortification line. This inner wall, about 50 meters long, curves slightly outwards from west-northwest to east. This rampart is also connected to the slope edge in the west, and ends two meters from the edge in the east. The wall reaches a height of one meter with a width of five meters. There was also a ditch in front of it, which is barely noticeable today. The area of ​​the core castle, which is sealed off in this way, is 55 meters long up to the tip of the spur and has no other attachment marks on its edges apart from an artificially steep slope edge. The earlier access to the facility was on the east side of the mountain spur, where the two section walls do not reach the slope edge. Today's breakthrough through the outer section wall a little east of its center is recent .

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 , pp. 178-179.
  • 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. 161.

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 161
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 178
  4. List of monuments for Bad Staffelstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 201 kB)
  5. Location of the section fortification (here referred to as section wall) in the BayernAtlas
  6. Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 178 and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 161