Section fortification Wolfsgrube

Section fortification Wolfsgrube
Creation time :	Prehistoric, possibly early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Departed, received the pilgrimage
Place:	Wattendorf -Waldflur "Wolfgrube"
Geographical location	50 ° 1 '32.2 "  N , 11 ° 6' 38.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '32.2 "  N , 11 ° 6' 38.6"  E
Height:	496.8  m above sea level NN

The section fortification Wolfsgrube is an abandoned early medieval or rather prehistoric fortification in the eponymous forest area Wolfsgrube. It is located about 1350 meters south-southwest of the Catholic parish church St. Barbara in the municipality Wattendorf in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this section fortification. It is dated as possibly early medieval or rather as prehistoric , ceramic shards from the Hallstatt period and found there would also fit . Only a simple section wall has been preserved from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-5932-0122 "Section fortification of prehistoric times or the early Middle Ages".

description

The attachment is located at 496.8  m above sea level. NN altitude and thus around 70 meters above the valley floor of the Leitenbach on a mountain spur that  extends northwards. This mountain tongue drops steeply to the west and north to the valley of the Leitenbach, in the east it is protected by the steep slope to a dry valley , the Wolfsgrube. The north-east corner of the fortified area is secured by a steeply sloping rock group, to the south and south-west this slightly formed spur dome merges into a gently sloping and wide hollow, the so-called little pond. On this side a slightly outwardly curved section wall running from west-northwest to east-southeast was created on a rocky step. The inner wall, up to 1.7 meters high and seven meters wide, runs in the east to just before the edge of the slope, pulls strongly inwards and ends flatter at the steep edge. The northern Wallende also pulls inwards for a length of 30 meters and ends on the steep slope.

The roughly rectangular inner surface fortified by this section wall was 40 to 50 meters long and 70 meters wide. No fastenings can be detected on the other sides. The earlier access to the complex cannot be located with certainty; today's breakthrough through the once closed section wall is recent in its eastern half .

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. 188-189.
• 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. 61.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 54 and Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide of Upper Franconia , p. 188
3. ↑ Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 188
4. ↑ List of monuments for Wattendorf (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 132 kB)
5. ↑ Location of the section fortification (here referred to as section wall) in the BayernAtlas
6. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 188 f. and Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical land monuments of Upper Franconia , p. 61