Babilony
| Babilony | ||
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 Babilonie over upper muscles |
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| Alternative name (s): | Babilonie ground monument | |
| Creation time : | 300-150 BC Chr. | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Double wall system, earthwork | |
| Standing position : | no assignment | |
| Construction: | Wooden posts set in earthwork with palisade | |
| Place: | Obermehnen in the Wiehen Mountains | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 16 '36 " N , 8 ° 34' 36" E | |
| Height: | 255 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Babilonie is a La Tène-temporal rampart at a height of 255.6 m on the northern edge of a crest of the Wiehengebirge above the Lübbeck district of Obermehnen in the Minden-Lübbecke district , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). Germanic means baben im lon up in the forest.
description
The wedge-shaped double rampart , sloping downhill in a northerly direction, was archaeologically examined in the first half of the last century by Friedrich Langewiesche in particular , who regards it as a refuge .
Ceramic and even metalworking finds point to the La Tène period, the pre-Roman Iron Age , and thus probably also to an extensive trade network. The fortification covers an area of more than 12 hectares. The first mapping of the hilltop, which is exceptionally well suited for a large castle complex, with a spring rising high up, was carried out after 1880.
Ceramic finds have also been found from the Saxon-Franconian period. According to Paul Höfer , a legend refers to Wittekind .
Wall of the main castle in the northeast
Wall of the main castle in the east
Path through the ramparts of the outer bailey in the north
Wall of the outer bailey in the northeast
Friedrich Langewiesche monument
literature
- Torsten Capelle: Wall castles in Westphalia-Lippe. Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2010, ISSN 0939-4745 , p. 22f. No. FBW 12 ( Early Castles in Westphalia special volume 1 )
- Daniel Bérenger: The Wallburg Babilonie, City of Lübbecke, Minden-Lübbecke district. "Early Castles in Westphalia, Vol. 12". Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Schmidt: The babilonie in history and legend . In: Municipality of Blasheim (ed.): 969–1969. 1000 years of the Blasheim community. Print: Bruns, Minden o. J. (1969), pp. 84-89.
- ↑ Paul Höfer: The campaign of Germanicus in the year 16. AD. 1884, p. 88
