Section fortification Kirchberg
Section fortification Kirchberg | ||
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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 | |
Height: | 505 m above sea level NN | |
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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
- ↑ Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 90
- ↑ Location of the section fortifications in the Bayern Viewer
- ↑ Source description: Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Walks, Volume 2: Mitteles Altmühltal , p. 88 ff.
- ↑ List of monuments for kinding (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 145 kB)