Feldberg castle wall
| Feldberg castle wall | |
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 Schlossberg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Schlossberg |
| Creation time : | 8th to 9th centuries |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle |
| Conservation status: | Wall remnants, trenches |
| Place: | Feldberger Seenlandschaft -Feldberg |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 21 '15 " N , 13 ° 27' 8" E |
The Feldberg castle wall , located in the Feldberger Seenlandschaft municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District , is located on the Schlossberg on the Breiten Luzin See. This ground monument is a Slavic rampart as a hilltop castle from the 7th to 9th centuries, consisting of a front and main castle . The outer bailey had an earth wall, still visible today, with two gates for protection. The grounds of the main castle lay on a plateau that was up to 36 m above the lake level. This made the castle hardly vulnerable from the sea. The main castle did not have a wall system, but was probably only secured with simpler palisades .
In 1924, after on-site investigations , Carl Schuchhardt came to the conclusion that the castle complex on the Schlossberg must be the long-sought Rethra . The situation of the terrain and the interpretation of the sources by Schuchhardt seemed to fit the written records of Thietmar von Merseburg . New excavations under the direction of Joachim Herrmann refuted this Rethra hypothesis and showed in 1967 that the castle was abandoned before the Rethra period.
It was a Wilzen castle complex with space for up to 1000 people. Slavic hilltop castles only existed in the old Slavic times. The ceramic found here for the first time has since been referred to as the " Feldberger type ".
literature
- Carl Schuchhardt: Arkona, Rethra, Vineta. Site surveys and excavations. 2., verb. and possibly edition Schoetz, Berlin 1926.
- Joachim Herrmann: Feldberg, Rethra and the problem of the Wilzian hill castles. In: Slavia antiqua , Vol. 16 (1969), pp. 33-69.
- Marion Röbkes: Feldberg. The Schlossberg. In: Witches, Gods, Cults. Vol. 2: Germany North. Haslach, 2005, pp. 52-53.
