Section fortification Puch

Section fortification Puch
Insight into the remains of the moats (March 2018)
Alternative name (s):	Römerschanze, Burgstall
Creation time :	Early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Gone
Place:	Fürstenfeldbruck - Puch corridor "Gehag"
Geographical location	48 ° 10 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 2 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 2 ″  E
Height:	565  m above sea level NN

The section fortification Puch , also called Römerschanze or Burgstall , is located about 850 meters south-southwest of the Catholic branch church St. Sebastian von Puch , a district of the large district town of Fürstenfeldbruck in Upper Bavaria on a 565 meter high edge of the terrain. The small site monument could go back to an early medieval village defense castle.

History and time

There are no specific information about the history of the ramparts in the Gehag corridor in the local historical sources. According to the typological characteristics, it could be one of the numerous small early medieval village fortifications in this region. Such fortifications emerged in the vicinity of numerous settlements , especially during the Hungarian storms of the first half of the 10th century. For this purpose, a suitable hill spur was usually attached by means of a - mostly curved or straight - section wall.

The system at Puch is also secured by a section wall, which is angled because of the corner location. No earthworks can be seen on the slope edges . Here probably only palisades or wattle fences protected the defenders, if the small defense system was ever completed. Many Hungarian ramparts were not completed after the defeat of the Hungarians on the nearby Lechfeld (955) because the danger had been eliminated.

The soil monument could also have arisen earlier, primarily as a reaction to one of the numerous regional conflicts, or it could go back to an older settlement area.

Between the weir and the village lies the Kaiseranger , where Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian was struck by a blow while hunting a bear in 1347 and died. In addition to a memorial plaque on the Kaiseranger, the Imperial Column ( Roman Anton Boos , 1796/97) in the Ampere plain east of Puch commemorates this event .

To the west of the section fortification lies a prehistoric burial mound field with 14 recognizable mounds. Immediately to the east of the ramparts, some funnel pits of an unknown time position have been preserved. The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments has listed a number of other ground monuments in the immediate vicinity, including some remains of settlements.

description

To the south and southwest of Puch, the plateau drops abruptly about 10 to 15 meters. The Wallburg sits on the southeastern edge of the demolished terrain. Two approximately right-angled moats secure an interior space of around 70 by 110 meters.

The excavation trench of the plant is about 1.5 meters deep. The heaped up wall rises from the bottom of the trench about 3.5 meters and towers over the interior by about two meters.

The site was completely planted with young forest around the year 2000. An inspection of the interior and the moats is currently difficult. The ramparts are broken through by a farm road, which allows insight into the rampart system.

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as an early medieval section fortification under the monument number D-1-7833-0064.

literature

• Volker Liedke, Peter Weinzierl: Fürstenfeldbruck district (Monuments in Bavaria, Volume I.12). Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-574-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry .