Leipferdingen Castle

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Leipferdingen Castle
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Burgstall, wall and moat remains
Place: Geisingen -Leipferdingen
Geographical location 47 ° 52 '2.8 "  N , 8 ° 38' 6.4"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '2.8 "  N , 8 ° 38' 6.4"  E
Height: 775  m above sea level NN
Leipferdingen Castle (Baden-Württemberg)
Leipferdingen Castle

The Leipferdingen Castle ( called Heidenlöcher in local lore or older literature ) is a defunct rampart on a 770  m above sea level at this point . NN high spur between the Aitrach - and the Neuvertal, about 2500 meters west of Leipferdingen, a current district of Geisingen in the district of Tuttlingen ( Baden-Württemberg ).

From the former, presumably prehistoric and possibly Celtic period, a good 130-meter-long rampart ( hilltop castle ), remnants of the five to seven meter wide section rampart at the base and the upstream, up to a maximum of two meters deep pointed trench have been preserved.

literature

  • Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts near Kirchen-Hausen and Leipferdingen (City of Geisingen, District of Tuttlingen) (Series Atlas of Archaeological Terrain Monuments in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 2, Issue 8. Ed .: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg), Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1471-9 , pp. 12-15, pp. 29-39.
  • Hansjürgen Brachmann : The early medieval fortifications in Central Europe. Studies of its development and function in the Germanic-German area (writings on prehistory and early history; vol. 45). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-001995-6 .
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance (research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg; Volume 5). Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 , pp. 112 and 140.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts at Kirchen-Hausen and Leipferdingen (City of Geisingen, District of Tuttlingen) , p. 29.
  2. ↑ Christoph Morrissey, Dieter Müller: The ramparts at Kirchen-Hausen and Leipferdingen (City of Geisingen, District of Tuttlingen) , pp. 31–33, 37