Section fortification Schanze (Geisingen)
| Section fortification Schanze | |
|---|---|
| Creation time : | Early medieval |
| Castle type : | Spur position |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains |
| Place: | Geisingen - Kirchen-Hausen - "Schanze" |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 54 '24.5 " N , 8 ° 39' 54.5" E |
| Height: | 770 m above sea level NN |
The Schanze section fortification is a rampart at about 770 m above sea level. NN up to 750 m above sea level NN height on a ridge before the confluence of the Pfaffenbach in the Aitrach and the Aitrach, 450 meters west-southwest of the local church of Kirchen, southeast of the city of Geisingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg . This section wall is an early medieval hill fort , which was first mentioned in literature in 1885.
description
The fortification is at the end of a north-northeast facing mountain spur. The system is cut off from the adjoining ridge by a wall up to 2.6 meters high and 13 meters wide. A trench up to 2.2 meters deep and ten meters wide is built on this wall. The three breakthroughs in the wall date from modern times. The bottom ditch turns slightly below the slope edge into the northwest slope and continues first as a bench or terrain step, later in trench-like sections the entire slope edge. At the top of the mountain spur, the ditch turns and ends here. A 40 meter long break in this terrain level is also due to erosion. The southeastern steep slope to the Aitrach has also been steepened over a length of about 150 meters. The earlier access was probably about 70 meters west of the spur tip at the end of the former sloping ditch.
The inner surface of the system falls to the spur tip over a slope embankment and also to the sides, the total area is 1.35 hectares , the upper area up to the slope embankment is 0.92 hectares. Inside the complex there are five stone piles of unknown origin on the main wall, and an excavation in them did not yield any results. To the east of it, a stone wall stretches across the complex.
literature
- Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts at Kirchen-Hausen and Leipferdingen (City of Geisingen, Tuttlingen district) . From the series: Atlas of archaeological terrain monuments , Volume 2, Issue 8. Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monument Office, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-8062-1471-0 , pp. 12-28.
- Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN 0178-3262 , pp. 69 and 130.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts at Kirchen-Hausen and Leipferdingen (City of Geisingen, District of Tuttlingen) , p. 12
- ↑ Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts at Kirchen-Hausen and Leipferdingen (City of Geisingen, District of Tuttlingen) , p. 21
- ↑ Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance , pp. 69 and 130