Section fortification Witterschlick

Section fortification Witterschlick
Section fortification Witterschlick
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall and moat remains
Place:	Alfter - Witterschlick
Geographical location	50 ° 41 '50.5 "  N , 7 ° 1' 54.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '50.5 "  N , 7 ° 1' 54.7"  E
Height:	152  m above sea level NHN

The section fortification Witterschlick is an abandoned ring wall system at 152  m above sea level. NHN am Hardtberg (on the border with Bonn ) in the Witterschlick district of the municipality of Alfter in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Remnants of ramparts and moats still bear witness to the early medieval wall section . The remains are classified as a ground monument.

Geographical location

At the upper edge of the terrain sloping west to the Hardtbach there is an approximately 100 × 80 m fortification consisting of a rampart and an upstream ditch. In the west the facility is bounded by the steep slope and section trenches, in the north by a natural trench cut. The trenches were up to 8 m wide and 3 to 4 m deep. They are partly filled in.

The castle could be a seat of the Lords of Duisdorf .

literature

• Günther Walzik: The importance of the archaeological finds for the prehistory and early history of the Alfter area . In: Engelbert G. Kalkum (Ed.): Contributions to the history of Alfter (=  local histories of the localities united in the large municipality of Alfter. Volume 1 ). Kirschbaum, Bonn 1989, p. 43 .

Web links

Commons : Section fortification Witterschlick  - Collection of images

• Entry on Witterschlick (Wallburg) in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 23 .