Ha-Knock fortification section

Ha-Knock fortification section
Creation time :	Prehistoric
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, section wall and ditch preserved
Place:	Hirschaid - Frisians - "Ha-Knock"
Geographical location	49 ° 51 '7.8 "  N , 11 ° 2' 6.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '7.8 "  N , 11 ° 2' 6.3"  E
Height:	430  m above sea level NN

The Ha-Knock section fortification is an abandoned prehistoric fortification near Friesen , in the municipality-free area of Eichwald in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria , Germany . Like several other fortifications, it is located on a Dogger branch of the Friesener Warte , the eponymous Bergsporn Ha-Knock, about 1200 meters north of the Catholic chapel of St. Maria in Friesen. No historical or archaeological information is known about the section fortification. It is roughly dated as prehistoric , no findings from the fortification are known. Only a section wall with a ditch has been preserved from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6132-0077 “Prehistoric section fortification”.

description

The fortification is located at about 430  m above sea level. NN height on the Ha-Knock and thus around 150  meters above the valley floor of the Ziegenbach . The Ha-Knock is a slope spur around 250 meters long and 30 to 35 meters wide, which rises from 522  m above sea level. NN high waiting with its glider airfield Friesener Warte and the large late La Tène period fortification point , into which a medieval ring wall was later built, extends to about half the slope to the north-northwest. The north-northeast side of the spur drops steeply into the valley of the Erlengraben, the south-southwest side and the spur tip into that of the Winkelgraben and its tributaries. These three sides were naturally well protected against approach, only the south-south-east narrow side, which climbs steeply to the summit of the Friesener Warte, had to be secured by a protruding section wall with a ditch. Measured from the inside, this wall is still around half a meter high, the trench is also half a meter deep, measured from the area in front, and the height of the jump, i.e. the difference between the top of the wall and the bottom of the trench, is 1.7 meters. This wall-ditch section fortification is only preserved in its eastern area, the remaining part has been destroyed by a ravine .

About 40 meters further north, another 40-meter-long and up to 1.5-meter-high section wall crosses the mountain spur; its eastern part has also been destroyed by a recent pathway. At its western end, the wall is exposed around three meters from the edge of the terrain, possibly where the earlier access to the inner fortification area was.

The inner surface of the system, sloping slightly towards the tip of the spur, measured around 240 × 40 meters.

literature

• 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. 48.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 48
2. ↑ List of monuments for Hirschaid (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 140 kB)
3. ↑ Location of the fortifications in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
4. ^ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and prehistoric terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 48