Section fortification Schlossleite (Pappenheim)

Section fastening Schlossleite
Creation time :	probably early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, Wall received
Place:	Pappenheim - Neudorf - "Sandbuck"
Geographical location	48 ° 58 '32.4 "  N , 11 ° 1' 53.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '32.4 "  N , 11 ° 1' 53.3"  E
Height:	525  m above sea level NN

The portion fixing Castle Leite is an Outbound probably early medieval castle, which was once on a mountain spur above the valley which Schambach and Ruderstal, a small dry valley, rose. The rampart is located in a north-easterly direction about 1760 meters away from the Neudorf local church Sankt Jakobus, a district of the city of Pappenheim in the district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria , Germany . A section wall has been preserved from the object, which is protected as a ground monument. Historical data about this fortification are not known, it seems to have never been completed.

description

The section fortification is located in the Schlossleite forest section on a north-facing mountain spur, an extension of the Sandbucks to the east. To the north and east, the ramparts are protected by steep slopes to the Schambach valley, the so-called Laubental , and to the west to a small dry valley, the Ruderstal. The fortification is secured against the adjoining wooded plateau by a curved section wall that stretches from the north-western steep slope to the south-east. It ends in the east of the ramparts on the slope that drops to the north. This wall was created on a natural step in the terrain. Since it only appears to have been completed on its west side, the entire complex seems to have never been completed. The length of this wall piece is 50 meters, its height one meter and its width eight meters. A trench is missing. The original width of this dry stone wall used to be around four meters. The earlier access to the fortification was in the west of the complex, there the wall turns five meters to the north before it reaches the steep slope, and runs parallel to the slope for another twelve meters. It thus forms an equally long gate lane to the facility. The wall was built from the material available in the immediate vicinity, Härtlingen from the Alb plateau .

literature

• Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Neudorf, City of Pappenheim: 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 , p. 113.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: Neudorf, City of Pappenheim: Wallanlage . In: Konrad Spindler: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - Monuments and sites , p. 113