Section fortification Höglberg

Section fortification Höglberg
Alternative name (s):	Section fortification Moniberg
Creation time :	Bronze age
Castle type :	Section wall
Conservation status:	Castle stables, moats, ramparts and terraces have been preserved
Place:	Landshut- Schönbrunn
Geographical location	48 ° 32 '23.5 "  N , 12 ° 10' 12.4"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '23.5 "  N , 12 ° 10' 12.4"  E

The Höglberg section fortification (also Moniberg section fortification ) is a defunct Bronze Age section fortification in the Schönbrunn district of Landshut . The former hilltop settlement is located in the Moniberg part of the municipality on the Carossahöhe near the Hofberg.

The complex is registered as a ground monument with the number D-2-7439-0039 by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

history

In 1823 the brewer Joseph Högl had a beer cellar dug on the Höglberg. Burial mounds and the remains of a more than 3000 year old settlement from the Bronze Age were discovered. At first the construction workers did not recognize the importance of the finds and part of the facility was removed as construction rubble. It was not until five days later that the magistrate and later mayor of Landshut, Carl Lorber , found out about the find and had excavations carried out.

The grave vault was covered on the outside with large field stones and lined on the inside with panels made of pebbles and bricks mixed with mortar. Human bones were discovered, some of which were traces of burn. There were also skeletons of horses and pottery.

During later excavations, another burial mound made of granite and field stone slabs was examined. The grave vault contained a human skeleton that was placed upside down on a horse. Human skeletons lay around the bones, including children's bones and the remains of a small horse. Other finds were a jug with a handle, weapons made of copper and zinc, tools, ash jugs, ceramic cups, a mold for arrowheads, bronze objects, weights and the remains of a fibula , needles and parts of a headdress.

Lorber had the finds exhibited in the Landshut town hall and thus created the forerunner of a city museum.

Later excavations showed that the area was already settled in the early Neolithic and was used until the Late Bronze Age , as settlement finds from the Münchshöfen culture and from the Urnfield Age were found.

description

The complex consists of an enclosure with wall- shaped piles of earth, in the immediate vicinity of which two burial mounds rise. There are other barrows in the vicinity.

literature

• Anton von Braunmühl: The old German tombs in the Högelberge and the surrounding area of ​​Landshut, discovered in 1823 by Carl Lorber , Verlag Joseph Thomann, Landshut 1826
• Angelika Hofmann:
  • The Höglberg - Landshut's oldest "castle" . In: Natural resources - writings from the museums of the city of Landshut . Verlag Isar-Post, Landshut 2005, pp. 53–58, ISBN 3-924943-43-5
  • The Landshut Höglberg. A forgotten prehistoric hilltop settlement . In: Lectures of the Niederbayerischen Archäologentag 24, Verlag Marie Leidorf , Deggendorf 2006, pp. 47–64, ISBN 978-3896462350
  • The research history of the Landshut Höglberg and its Middle to Late Bronze Age settlement context - a contribution to the Bronze Age in Lower Bavaria . In: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 46, Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2014, pp. 115-139, ISBN 978-3-89646-887-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ The old German tombs , p. 4
2. ↑ Gerhard Tausche , Werner Ebermeier: History of Landshut . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2003, pp. 10-12, ISBN 3406510485
3. ↑ List of monuments for Landshut (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation