Section fortification Schwedenschanze (Oberlangheim)

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Section fortification of the Schwedenschanze
Creation time : Prehistoric and early history or early medieval
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Disappeared, ramparts and moats preserved
Place: Lichtenfels - Oberlangheim - "Unter-Glänz-Berg"
Geographical location 50 ° 5 '39.3 "  N , 11 ° 5' 57"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '39.3 "  N , 11 ° 5' 57"  E
Height: 472.7  m above sea level NN
Section fortification Schwedenschanze (Bavaria)
Section fortification of the Schwedenschanze

The section fortification of the Schwedenschanze is a defunct prehistoric and early historical or early medieval fortification on the Unter-Glänz-Berg, immediately west of the former garbage dump . It is located about 460 meters southeast of the St. Michael Catholic Chapel in the Oberlangheim district of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification. It is dated to prehistoric and early historical times or as early medieval or Carolingian - Ottonian due to the two-part structure and the fortification features of the inner edge wall. Only a double sectional rampart and edge ramparts have survived from the complex; the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5932-0001: Section fortification of prehistoric times .

description

The fortification is located at 472.7  m above sea level. NN altitude and thus around 100  meters above the valley floor of the Oberlangheimer Graben on a mountain spur of the Unter-Glänz-Berg directed to the west-northwest. Three sides of the mountain, the south-south-west, the north-east and the west-south-west drop steeply to the valley, the north-west is initially 15 meters flat and then becomes steeper. The area was naturally well protected. Only in the east-southeast does the mountain spur merge into a widening and slightly rising plateau and there had to be specially protected. On this side, about 140 meters in front of the spur tip, an 85-meter-long, slightly outwardly curved section wall was built, which is accompanied by a strongly flattened outer trench. The ends of this rampart run out in the mountainside. The wall is around nine meters wide and 0.6 meters high inside. The jump height, i.e. the difference in height between the ridge and the bottom of the trench, is up to 0.9 meters, the depth of the trench measured from the foreground is only up to 0.3 meters. The outer portion fixing bolted an area of about 65 times from 40 to 45 meters, this Vorburg has no edge fastening on.

After 40 to 45 meters, a second, more pronounced section fortification follows within the outer fortification. There, too, the mountain spur is crossed by a 55-meter-long rampart running from north-north-east to south-south-west with a trench exposed on the outside. The inside height of this wall is up to 1.4 meters, the jump height 1.2 meters, the depth of the trench from the foreground 0.6 meters and the width of the wall and trench around 13 meters. The northern end of the ditch is closed on the slope edge by a flat wall, the southern end of the ditch and that of the rampart have been destroyed by a small quarry.

The triangular inner surface of the main castle , which slopes slightly towards the tip of the spur, is 85 meters long and up to 50 meters wide. It is surrounded by a well-marked edge wall; its height is still 0.5 meters, its width five meters. This edge wall joins the inner section wall, which bends inward at the slope edges and merges into the edge wall. The edge wall mostly follows the natural slope edge of the spur, except on the northwest side, where the slope edge is lower, there the edge wall of the edge was set back about 15 meters. Towards the tip of the spur, the edge wall is interrupted twice, probably due to recent disturbances. The earlier access cannot be located, it was possibly in the area of ​​the quarry in the southeast of the inner castle.

literature

  • Björn-Uwe Abels : Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0373-3 , pp. 157-158.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 121.

Individual evidence

  1. Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 121
  2. Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 157
  3. List of monuments for Lichtenfels (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 192 kB)
  4. Location of the Schwedenschanze in the Bayern Atlas
  5. Source Description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 157 f. and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical site monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 121