Ground monument Ringwall Erdenburg
The soil monument Ringwall Erdenburg is located about 700 m northwest of Moitzfeld on the Erdenburg in the Hardt nature reserve in the town of Bergisch Gladbach in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district .
description
The ground monument is located on a flat knoll 215.9 m above sea level. Three or four concentric walls enclose an oval interior space about 230 m long and 165 m wide. They run around the crest and are largely preserved. There are shallow trenches in front of the ramparts. The wall and ditch system is approx. 36 m wide.
history
In popular parlance, it was originally assumed that the Erdenburg must be an ancient hill fort from prehistoric times. Many local researchers put the castle in Celtic times . They saw it as a fortress system from around 500 BC. Chr. Against the gradually invading Germans . Because no scientific results were available, excavations were carried out in 1935, which Werner Buttler reported in the yearbook of the Rheinisch-Bergischen-Kreis 1937. Based on these excavation results, it was estimated that the site was around 2000 years old. From this it was concluded that the complex dates from the late Latène period, i.e. from the 1st century BC. The Erdenburg was therefore ascribed to a Germanic tribe who built the castle. You played a role in the clashes with the Romans .
This research result met with criticism, so that a new investigation was planned in 1968. The Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Cologne had a section cut through one of the eastern ramparts. A layer of charcoal was found on the bottom of the wall. Hermann Schwabedissen reported that the measurement of radioactive carbon took place around 380 BC. BC (plus / minus 80 years). The ramparts of western and northern Germany therefore existed before the Romans came.
Ground monument
The area is entered under No. 5 in the list of archaeological monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bergisch Gladbach, permanent ground monument No. 5
- ↑ Angelika Mecking: The Erdenburg near Bensberg - first excavation of the Schutzstaffel between archeology and National Socialism , LVR Office for Ground Monument Preservation in the Rhineland. Accessed on August 31, 2018
- ↑ Werner Buttler: The Erdenburg near Bensberg , in the yearbook of the Rheinisch-Bergischen-Kreis 1937 , p. 192ff.
- ↑ Erdenburg - examined in the laboratory, scientists discovered: Older than 2000 years , in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1970 , p. 170
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 14.1 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 26.6 ″ E