Section fortification Wettenburg

Section fortification Wettenburg
Creation time :	Neolithic to Late Bronze Age
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Kreuzwertheim - "Kingdom of Heaven"
Geographical location	49 ° 45 '36 " N , 9 ° 33' 25.2" E Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '36 " N , 9 ° 33' 25.2" E

The fortification, which consists of four section walls, was built or changed in various cultural stages . The complex was probably used as a fortification since the Neolithic Age , as evidenced by finds from the time of the urnfield culture . Excavations between 1981 and 1988 testify that it was also used in the late Hallstatt / early La Tène period , the migration period and in the late Middle Ages . A suspected use during the early Middle Ages could not be sufficiently proven by finds.

Wall and moat remains from the former castle complex have been preserved.

literature

Heinrich Habel and Helga Himen (arr.): Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume VI . Lower Franconia. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985
Dieter Neubauer: The Wettenburg in the Mainschleife near Urphar. A height fortification of the early Neolithic, the Urnfield Age, the Early Iron Age and the Migration Period , Würzburg 2000, 408 pages