Section fortification Kirchberg

Section fortification Kirchberg
Creation time :	Prehistory and early history, possibly early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Castle stable with several wall-moat fortifications
Place:	Kinding - Erlingshofen - "Kirchberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 59 '23.4 "  N , 11 ° 18' 29.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '23.4 "  N , 11 ° 18' 29.3"  E
Height:	505  m above sea level NN

The portion fixing Kirchberg is an Outbound pre- and early history , possibly early medieval ramparts ( Spur castle on 505  m above sea level.  NN ) on the eponymous Kirchberg , about 350 meters east-southeast of the Catholic branch church of the Assumption in Erlingshofen in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Kinding in Bavaria , Germany . No historical information is known about this section fortification, according to the type of construction it could be a fortification from the 10th century. Only a multiple wall and ditch system has survived from the complex; the site is protected as a ground monument.

description

The section fortification lies on a 40 meter wide, spur-like mountain tongue, which drops steeply on three sides into the adjacent valleys. Only the east side of this mountain tongue goes up slightly to the summit of 515.8  m above sea level. NN high Kirchberg too. On this side, around 200 meters in front of the spur tip, there is a first fortification consisting of a 50-meter-long section wall with a ditch. This wall extends between the two slopes of the mountain tongue. About 30 meters after the first wall, a 40-meter-long double wall extends over the mountain tongue as the second line of fortifications. A base trench is placed in front of this double wall , the height of the inner wall is still 1.20 meters, to the trench it drops 2.50 meters. A third section wall is a further 55 meters away, it consists of a 1.20 meter high stone wall with a moat . This wall seals off an area 90 meters long.

The ground monument recorded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as a section fortification of prehistoric times has the monument number D-1-7033-0066.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Middle Altmühltal . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-57-1 , pp. 88-90.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 90
2. ↑ Location of the section fortifications in the Bayern Viewer
3. ↑ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 88 ff.
4. ↑ List of monuments for kinding (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 145 kB)