Section fortification Dragonerspitz

Section fortification Dragonerspitz
Creation time :	Early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, section wall with outer ditch preserved
Place:	Buttenheim - Ketschendorf - "Dragonerspitz"
Geographical location	49 ° 50 '13.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 11.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '13.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 11.1"  E
Height:	515.1  m above sea level NN

The section fortification Dragonerspitz is a defunct early medieval fortification on a mountain spur, the so-called Dragonerspitz, protruding east into the valley of the Deichselbach . The castle site of the Spornburg is located around 1260 meters north-northeast of the Catholic local chapel Herz Jesu in Ketschendorf in the Upper Franconian community of Buttenheim in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification ; the archaeologist Björn-Uwe Abels dated it as a fortification of the Ottonian period (10th to 11th centuries). It is possible that this was not completed, the northern part of the section wall shows no signs of destruction and looks unfinished. Only a simple wall-trench system has survived from the system. The site is protected as ground monument number D-4-6132-0089: “Prehistoric or medieval section fortification”.

description

The approximately 100 × 150 meter triangular section fortification is located on a wide, east-facing mountain spur, which on its northeast side drops several meters vertically over cliffs. In the southeast, the steep mountain slope interspersed with rocks also offers good protection, only to the west, where the spur merges into the plateau that rises just a few meters, the facility had to be secured. A section wall with a trench was laid on this side . The wall starts at the southern slope edge and initially runs 75 meters in a straight line in a north-westerly direction. Then it is interrupted by a 20 meter long gap, in which, however, there is only a very narrow wall. This is followed by two 25-meter-long pieces of rampart facing north, which in turn are separated by a twelve-meter-wide gap. These two interruptions could be earlier additions. Allen average of 14 meters wide and five feet high wall pieces are still ten meters wide and one to two meters deep ditches presented. The remainder of the 30-meter-long stretch to the northern edge of the slope no longer shows any remains of fortifications; the system on this side may have remained unfinished. There are no traces of construction above ground on the flat inner surface.

literature

• Björn-Uwe Abels : Ketschendorf, section fortification on the Dragonerspitz . In: Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 141-142.
• 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. 118-120.
• 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. 53.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location of the fortifications in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ↑ List of monuments for Buttenheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 139 kB)
3. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 118 ff.