Trumpet

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Trumpet
The trumpet

The trumpet

Creation time : middle Ages
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, mound of earth
Construction: moth
Place: Obernhain
Geographical location 50 ° 16 '56.4 "  N , 8 ° 33' 7.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '56.4 "  N , 8 ° 33' 7.7"  E
Drusenküppel (Hesse)
Trumpet

The Drusenküppel is a medieval tower hill castle (Motte) about 300 meters east of Wehrheim - Obernhain in the Hochtaunuskreis . Even if the facility is in the heights of the Taunus, the classification as a Niederungsburg results from the small topographical location . It lies in a depression, surrounded by a damp meadow. The mound of earth is around 5 meters high today and has a round shape with a diameter of about 12 meters. A three to four meter wide trench with an earth wall is in front. Overall, the system measures around 40 meters in diameter. Today there is a group of trees here. This is designated as a natural monument .

Excavations by August von Cohausen (1871), Louis Jacobi (1895) and Heinrich Jacobi (1913) revealed that the castle had no stone walls. Only a few high medieval finds were recovered and are now exhibited in the Saalburg . In the immediate vicinity there are signs of iron smelting and slag heaps, so that it can be assumed that the Drusenküppel is related to medieval iron extraction. The facility can be compared with the Alte Schanz near Heidenrod - Zorn .

Monument protection

The area of ​​the facility is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.

View of the ramparts

See also

literature

  • Dietwulf Baatz : The tower castle Drusenküppel near Obernhain. In: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum et al. (Ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 21: Hochtaunus, Bad Homburg, Usingen, Königstein, Hofheim. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1972, ISSN  0071-9757 , p. 133ff.
  • Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 686-687 .

Web links

Commons : Drusenküppel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Natural monuments. www.hochtaunuskreis.de, archived from the original on March 1, 2016 ; Retrieved April 27, 2016 .