Section fortification Schlossberg (Degersheim)

Section fortification Schlossberg
Creation time :	probably early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, moat preserved
Place:	Heidenheim - Degersheim - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location	48 ° 59 '2.7 "  N , 10 ° 48' 37.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '2.7 "  N , 10 ° 48' 37.1"  E
Height:	570  m above sea level NN

The section fortification Schlossberg is probably an abandoned early medieval spur castle , which was once located at 570  m above sea level. NN high mountain spur rose above the valley of the Eastern Rohrach and a small dry valley. The rampart is located in a south-easterly direction about 2800 meters away from the Degersheimer Ortskirche Sankt Martin, a district of the market Heidenheim in the district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria , Germany . Today a section wall with a trench has been preserved from the object, which is protected as a ground monument . Historical references to this fortification are not known.

description

The section fortification is located on a south-facing mountain spur, the so-called Schlossberg, an extension of the Steinbühl to the north. To the west and south, the ramparts are protected by steep slopes to the Rohrachtal, to the east to a small dry valley. The fortification, located north above the Fuchsmühle, is secured against the adjoining plateau by an outwardly curved section wall. This wall is about 105 meters long and extends from the western steep slope to the southeast. The width of the wall is ten meters at its base, and the height is up to 1.50 meters. It used to be a trench, of which only a small and heavily flattened piece has survived in the north, the rest of the trench has now been leveled, presumably through erosion . The former access was in the southeast, here the wall is drawn inwards and thus forms a gate lane on the steep slope. A path from the dry valley leads up to this access even today.

literature

• Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Degersheim, Heidenheim market: ramparts . In: Konrad Spindler (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - monuments and sites . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0504-3 , pp. 25-26.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Degersheim, Markt Heidenheim: Wallanlage . In: Konrad Spindler: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - Monuments and sites , p. 25 f.