Section fortification Herrenknock

Section fortification Herrenknock
Creation time :	Early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Left, dig received
Place:	Scheßlitz - Ludwag - "Herrenknock"
Geographical location	49 ° 57 '42 .9 "  N , 11 ° 4' 30.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '42  .9 " N , 11 ° 4' 30.9"  E
Height:	560  m above sea level NN

The section fortification Herrenknock is a defunct early medieval fortification near Ludwag , a district of the municipality Scheßlitz in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria , Germany . It is located on the eponymous mountain spur Herrenknock, about 1450 meters north-northwest of the Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist in Ludwag. No historical or archaeological information is known about the section fortification. It is roughly dated as early medieval, and there are no known findings from the fortification. Only one section of the trench has survived from the complex ; the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6032-0043 “Section fortification of the early Middle Ages”.

description

The fortification is located at about 560  m above sea level. NN height, and thus around 230  meters above the valley floor of the Seierbach , on the Herrenknock, a mountain spur protruding to the north-northwest at 577.6  m above sea level. NN high mountain. The mountain spur drops very steeply on three sides into the surrounding valleys and was thus naturally well protected. Only on the southeast side of the spur does the area rise slightly to the summit of the mountain. A section trench around 50 meters long was dug here, around ten meters wide and two meters deep when measured from the area in front of the site.

The uneven inner surface, sloping from the ditch about 25 meters in height to the tip of the spur, measured around 150 × 50 meters. Apart from the moat, no clear traces of the fortification have survived. The south-west and north-east side of the facility slope down at the respective edge of the terrain to form a narrow terrace that accompanies the spur and is followed by a steep slope to the valley. These two terrace-like land steps run from the front spur area to the side of the trench section.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Forays in Meranierland am Obermain - A guide to archaeological and monuments of the early and high Middle Ages . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 3-9804971-7-8 , p. 59.
• 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. 54.

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. 54
2. ↑ List of monuments for Scheßlitz (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 185 kB)
3. ↑ Location of the fortifications in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
4. ^ Source description: Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 54