Bielplatz Bellwitz
| Bielplatz Bellwitz | ||
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 The Alte Wall with Bielplatz |
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| Alternative name (s): | Wallburg Bellwitz, old ski jump | |
| Creation time : | around 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wallrest | |
| Place: | Löbau - Bellwitz | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 7 '21.2 " N , 14 ° 41' 35.8" E | |
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Bielplatz Bellwitz , also called Wallburg Bellwitz or Alte Schanze , is the remainder of a Slavic castle rampart on a rocky promontory above the Löbauer Wasser (river loop) about 800 meters southwest of the Löbauer district of Bellwitz (north of Georgewitz ) in the Görlitz district in Saxony .
The ramparts were founded around 1000 and probably served to guard an earlier Neißefurt on an old Saxon trade route via Göda (near Bautzen ) to Jauernick-Buschbach (near Görlitz ) on to Silesia , where traders passing through had to pay their road tolls .
The so-called "Bielplatz" is a section wall with a rampart of a former horseshoe-shaped castle complex . The hill fort was also used after the conquest in the early German time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the facility was severely demolished by a quarry.
Today the wall length is only 36 meters, the height almost 5 meters and the wall crown is still 4 to 14 meters wide and belongs as a cultural monument to the Georgewitzer scale .