Burgring (Goddelsheim)

Burgring Goddelsheim
Alternative name (s):	Wallburg, ring
Creation time :	probably 2nd half of the 8th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	Spitzgraben and Wall
Standing position :	Karolinger / Liudolfinger
Construction:	Wall supported by a mortar wall
Place:	near Lichtenfels (Hessen) - Goddelsheim in the Aartal
Geographical location	51 ° 11 '48.7 "  N , 8 ° 45' 39.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '48.7 "  N , 8 ° 45' 39.6"  E
Height:	381  m above sea level NHN

With Burgring the remains are a former Wallburg between Goddelsheim and Medebach in North Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg referred.

investment

It is probably from Carolingian or Ottonian times. It is a shield-shaped hill fort with a pointed moat and formerly a rampart supported by mortar walls. It is located west of Goddelsheim above the Aartal .

At the end of the 19th century the facility is described as follows: “Not far from Medebach to Corbach in the Waldeckchen there is a castle ring which, at a height of 6-8 m, encloses an area of ​​14 acres in which 2 well-like depressions, old drinking troughs, can be found . "

literature

• Willi Görich : On the trail of the past. Excavations on the ring near Goddelsheim. In: Waldeckische Landes-Zeitung. 1936, no.233.
• Willi Görich: The “Burgring” between Goddelsheim and Medebach: a street festival for Charlemagne? In: History sheets for Waldeck. 44, 1952, ISSN  0342-0965 , pp. 1-21.

Web links

• Burgring, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Burgring - Cartographic representation .  Topographic map 1: 25,000. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert K. Hömberg : Between Rhine and Weser. Aschendorff, 1967, p. 97 ff.
2. ^ Journal for patriotic history and antiquity . Volumes 52-53, 184, p. 127