Section fortification Kuhfels

Section fortification Kuhfels
Section fortification Kuhfels - view of the rock spur from the southwest (August 2013)
Creation time :	Prehistory and early history, but possibly also medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Departed, received a stone wall
Place:	Illschwang - Bachtesfeld - "Kuhfels"
Geographical location	49 ° 28 '56.1 "  N , 11 ° 39' 3.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '56.1 "  N , 11 ° 39' 3.5"  E
Height:	568.3  m above sea level NN

The portion fixing Kuhfels is an Outbound pre- and early historical fastening system on a in a dry valley projecting Felssporn , the so-called Kuhfels . It is located around 885 meters south of the center of Bachtesfeld in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Illschwang in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification, only a simple wall system has been preserved from the complex. The site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6535-0058: section fortification of prehistoric times or the Middle Ages .

description

The spur castle is located on a north-east jutting into a dry valley 668.3  m above sea level. NN high rock spur. The system is cordoned off from the adjacent plateau on the southwest side by a naturally created railing channel 20 meters wide and two meters deep. This groove could have served as a neck ditch . The north-west side (cover picture) and the spur tip (picture 2) in the north-east are naturally very well protected by a steep, vertical drop of the rock faces several meters deep; the steeply sloping, but climbable south-east side is secured by a stone wall. This wall with a length of 20 meters is still 0.60 meters high and six meters wide (Fig. 3). It does not extend all the way from the spur tip along the southeast side and then bends 75 meters in front of the spur tip at a right angle to the northwest (Fig. 4). There it is still 0.80 meters high. The access to the complex could have been at this end of the rampart, which was completely leveled there by the construction of a mountain hut.

photos

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  Figure 2: View of the spur tip of the Kuhfelsen natural monument (August 2013)

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  Image 3: Wall on the northeast side, on the left the inner surface of the fortification (August 2013)

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  Photo 4: Bending rampart in the southeast, view from the foreground (August 2013)

literature

• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , pp. 82-83.

Web links

Commons : Section fortification Kuhfels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Illschwang (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 136 kB)
2. ↑ Armin Stroh: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of the Upper Palatinate. 1975, p. 82 f.