Section fortification Kalmusfels

Section fortification Kalmusfels
Kalmusfels fortification section - view of the flattened Wall ditch (July 2013)
Creation time :	Prehistory and early history
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, wall-ditch fortification preserved
Place:	Illschwang - "calamus rocks"
Geographical location	49 ° 26 '35.4 "  N , 11 ° 41' 45"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '35.4 "  N , 11 ° 41' 45"  E
Height:	525  m above sea level NN

The portion fixing Kalmusfels is an Outbound pre- and early historical fastening system on a in a dry valley projecting spur, the so-called Kalmusfelsen . It is located about 1050 meters southeast of the former fortified church Sankt Veit in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Illschwang in Bavaria , Germany . No historical information is known about this section fortification, only a simple wall-ditch system has survived from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument.

description

The section fortification ( Höhenburg ) lies on a north-east jutting into a dry valley 525  m above sea level. NN high mountain tongue. It is cordoned off from the adjoining plateau by a straight section wall, which stretches from the steeply sloping western to the eastern slope edge and was preceded by a ditch. This moat is heavily flattened, measures only half a meter from the bottom of the trench to the ridge and is still two meters wide. It is unclear where the earlier access to the facility was, the wall is broken in the middle by a hiking trail that leads to the lookout point on the Kalmusfelsen.

The flat area separated in this way is 75 meters long and slopes steeply to the west and east; to the north it is bounded by several meters of vertically sloping rock walls.

The ground monument recorded by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as a “section fortification of prehistoric times” has the monument number D-3-6536-0042.

literature

• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 110.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate. 1975, p. 110.
2. ↑ List of monuments for Illschwang (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)