Section fortification knock

Section fortification knock
Creation time :	Prehistoric
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, section wall and ditch preserved
Place:	Hirschaid - Seigendorf - "Knock"
Geographical location	49 ° 49 '40.9 "  N , 11 ° 2' 33.9"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '40.9 "  N , 11 ° 2' 33.9"  E
Height:	435  m above sea level NN

The portion fixing Knock is a Outbound prehistoric fortification in Seigendorf , in the municipality of Hirschaid in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria , Germany . It is located on the eponymous mountain spur Knock, about 1200 meters east-northeast of the Catholic Church of St. Michael in Seigendorf. 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 survived from the complex; the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6132-0082 “Prehistoric section fortification”.

description

The fortification is located at about 435  m above sea level. NN height on the Knock, and thus around 150  meters above the valley floor of the Seigenbach . This knock is a slope spur that arises 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 south-southwest. The mountain spur falls very steeply at its top and steeply down to the valley on the west and east sides and was thus naturally well protected. Only on the north-northeast side of the spur does the pre-terrain rise steeply to the large summit plateau of the Warte. To make it more difficult to approach from this side, a section wall with a trench was built 150 meters in front of the spur tip . The 40 meter long wall, which is slightly drawn in towards the spur tip, is around five meters wide and up to one meter high. The trench is three to four meters wide and only half a meter deep when measured from the forecourt. The west side of the moat is highly disturbed, the east end is by the quarries leading on the mountain ravines system completely destroyed.

The inner surface of the facility sloping slightly towards the tip of the spur measured around 150 × 40 meters. Apart from the section wall and the ditch, no clear traces of the fortification have survived.

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. 57.

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. 57
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 early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 57