Amelungsburg (Lipper Bergland)
| Amelungsburg | ||
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 Amelungsburg in the Lipper Bergland |
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| height | 292 m | |
| location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Lipper mountain country | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 2 '52 " N , 8 ° 59' 3" E | |
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| rock | Keuper | |
The Amelungsburg is a 292 meter high mountain in the Lipper Bergland in the municipality of Dörentrup , Lippe district .
The oldest written record of the mountain as Amelingesburg comes from 1496. At the top of the mountain known as Amelungsburg was probably an offshore waiting to be located in the south-western spur position ramparts beeping head . The Piepenkopf ramparts, used as a refuge, could be traced back to around 250 BC based on fire finds. BC and therefore belongs to the Latène period . Visible traces of a castle or a waiting room are no longer present on the Amelungsburg. Friedrich Hohenschwert , the former head of the Lippisches Landesmuseum, considers it possible that the original name of the Piepenkopf ramparts has been retained in the name "Amelungsburg".
At the foot of the Amelungsburg, on the south-western side, there is a 2 m high and 130 m long wall section with a 1.5 m deep ditch that is still easily recognizable today. The wall was first mentioned in writing by Ludwig Hölzermann in 1878 . After an archaeological test excavation did not provide any dating finds, it is assumed that this upstream wall is a few centuries younger than the Piepenkopf wall and was used to guard the path system.
literature
- Friedrich Hohenschwert : "Prehistoric and early historical fortifications in Lippe". Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 1978. ISBN 3-921428-21-1
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Meineke : The place names of the Lippe district. (= Westphalian Place Name Book Volume 2). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89534-842-6 , p. 31. ( PDF )
- ↑ a b Friedrich Hohenschwert : "Prehistoric and early historical fortifications in Lippe". Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 1978
- ↑ Ludwig Hölzermann: "Local investigations, the wars of the Romans and Franks as well as the fortification manners of the Teutons, Saxons and the late Middle Ages concerning", Münster 1878
- ^ Leo Nebelsiek : Prehistoric and early historical castles in Lippe, Lippischer Kalender . 1950.
