Section fortification Hünenring

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Section fortification Hünenring
Creation time : Prehistoric, possibly Urnfield time
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Out of here, Wallrest
Place: Dollnstein - Ried - "Rieder Leite"
Geographical location 48 ° 50 '34.8 "  N , 11 ° 3' 1.8"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '34.8 "  N , 11 ° 3' 1.8"  E
Height: 507.8  m above sea level NHN
Section fortification Hünenring (Bavaria)
Section fortification Hünenring

The portion fixing giant ring is an Outbound prehistoric section attachment ( Hünenburg ) on a mountain spur of Rieder Leite in the district Ried market Dollnstein in Eichstätt in Bavaria . The name of the system probably originates from the local rock blocks of giant so gigantic should have been stored being there. No historical information is known about this section fortification, according to the type of fortification or the gate situation, which is similar to that of the Schellenburg ring wall near Kinding or that of the Michaelsberg section fortification near Kipfenberg , it could come from the Urnfield period. Archaeological excavations have not yet taken place on the Hünenring. Only a section wall has survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-1-7132-0062: section fortification of prehistoric times .

Geographical location

The section fortification is located 950 meters west-south-west of the local chapel of Ried or 4140 meters south-south-west of the Catholic parish church of Dollnstein on a mountain tongue protruding to the south. This maximum 507.8  m above sea level. NHN high mountain promontory is bounded by steep mountain slopes, the so-called Rieder Leite, to the east of the Wellheimer dry valley and to the baker's or bakery valley on the west and south side, to the north, after a mountain saddle just a few meters lower, a likewise wooded plateau closes on. The fortification is about 100  meters above the dry valley. The mountain tongue of the Hünenring also forms the southern part of the FFH area beech forests on the Alb plateau .

A few meters below the Hünenring, at about 430  m above sea level. NHN Höhe is the Beixenstein cave ruin, from which finds from various epochs of prehistory have also been found.

description

The hill fort is cut off from the subsequent plateau by a 150 meter long stone wall at a narrow point in the mountain tongue, at the transition to the southern end of the mountain saddle. The height of the wall is still around 2.50 meters above the level of the present site, it rises 1.50 meters above the inner surface of the fortification. This wall stretches a few meters along the western edge of the slope to the Bäckertal, and then turns to the east at the narrow point. It then runs with an arch extending to the north to the eastern edge of the slope, but before it reaches this steep slope, it bends to the south, and thus formed the former access to the facility. This south-facing gate cheek is about 30 meters long and flanked a four-meter wide doorway. At the end of the cheek there is a round stone mound with a diameter of eleven meters and a height of only 0.70 meters. A second, similar hill with a diameter of 13 meters and a height of 1.70 meters is located north of the gate situation, both of which are possibly the remains of defensive structures at the entrance.

literature

  • Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 36-38.
  • Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 38.
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Dollnstein (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)
  3. ↑ Location of the fortifications in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
  4. ↑ Map services ( memento of December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  5. ^ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 37 f.