Kirchkopf Castle
| Kirchkopf Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 5th to 8th centuries | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Place: | Mössingen - Talheim - "Kirchkopf" | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 23 '21.2 " N , 9 ° 6' 58" E | |
| Height: | 770.5 m above sea level NN | |
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The Kirchkopf Castle is the remainder of a prehistoric spur castle ( Wallburg ) on the Kirchkopf at 770.5 m above sea level. NN northeast of Talheim , a district of Mössingen in the Tübingen district ( Baden-Württemberg ). The ramparts are freely accessible.
Article from tagblatt.de There was once a hill fort , quote:
- The local history researcher Jürgen Meyer from Belsen suspects that it was parts of a huge weir system that barred the mountain plateau of the Kirchkopf at a height of 770 meters up to 100 meters wide, a " refugee castle " of the 5th to 8th centuries. “It can be assumed that there were palisades on it in some form,” he writes in his book “Archaeological Secrets”. But: “Who and what was it to protect on the plateau? Did it even make sense militarily? ”In the description of the upper office, fragments of the urn field culture are reported, a“ multi-phase ”wall.
literature
- Günter Schmitt : Castle Guide Swabian Alb, Volume 5 - West Alb: Hiking and discovering between Reutlingen and Spaichingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1993, ISBN 3-924489-65-3 , p. 18.
Web links
- Entry on Kirchkopf Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".