Section fortification Kottingwörth

Section fortification Kottingwörth
Creation time :	Prehistory and early history, possibly medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, several wall-moat fortifications preserved
Place:	Beilngries - Kottingwörth -Flur "Fischerleite"
Geographical location	49 ° 0 '51.4 "  N , 11 ° 30' 41.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '51.4 "  N , 11 ° 30' 41.5"  E
Height:	470  m above sea level NN

The portion fixing Kottingwörth is an Outbound pre- and early historical Fortification ( Sporn Burg ), possibly also a medieval castle stable on a in the valley of the Altmühlberg projecting 470  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur.

The castle is located about 800 meters south-southwest of the former fortified church Sankt Vitus in Kottingwörth in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Beilngries in Bavaria , Germany .

No historical information is known about this section fortification; it was probably used to monitor an old road that ran from north to south between Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz and Landshut . At Kottingwörth it crossed the valley and the Altmühl over a ford and then climbed back up to the plateau through a dry valley in the south. The weir system was located in the immediate vicinity of this important traffic connection and could easily control it. 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 mountain tongue protruding northeast into the valley of the Altmühl. The facility is cordoned off from the adjacent plateau by a 90-meter-long section wall, which extends northward from the southern slope edge. Shortly before it reaches the northern edge of the slope, the wall is interrupted, where the earlier access was probably located. A trench was in front of the wall . A second section wall is around 55 meters further in the direction of the Spornspitze, a third is another 37 meters away. This third wall is still 65 meters long and seals off a 95 meter long core plant of the plant. This section of the fortification is surrounded by an edge wall in addition to the steep slope of the terrain.

The ground monument recorded by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as a “section fortification of prehistoric times” bears the monument number D-1-6935-0014.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 1: Lower Altmühltal . 2nd Edition. Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-42-3 , pp. 90-91.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Referred to as Burgstall on map 1: 25000 in the Bayern Viewer
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ingrid Burger-Segl: Archaeological Walks, Volume 1: lower Altmühltal , p. 91
3. ↑ List of monuments for Beilngries (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 172 kB)