Alt-Hayingen Castle
| Alt-Hayingen Castle | |
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 double wall-trench system |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ringwall Alt-Hayingen |
| Creation time : | around 400 BC Chr. |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
| Conservation status: | Wall and moat |
| Place: | Hayingen -Indelhausen |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 17 '21.1 " N , 9 ° 29' 46.7" E |
| Height: | 661 m above sea level NN |
The Castle Alt-Hayingen , even rampart Alt-Hayingen called, is the residue of a rampart to 661 m above sea level. NN 300 meters from the ruins Maisenburg above the Lauter valley in the districts Indelhausen and Anhausen the city Hayingen in the district of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg .
The complex consists of a bailey and an inner wall ring . The main castle consists in the west of a double wall and ditch system, in the east, however, of a staggered slope reinforcement.
The age of the fortification in its present form is not certain. Finds from the late Hallstatt period (6th to 5th centuries BC) indicate at least a settlement in the early Celtic period. It can be assumed that the walls were also built at this time.
literature
- Archaeological Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2002, No. 193, pp. 129–130.
Web links
- History of the city of Hayingen at hayingen.de