Dudenrother ski jump
| Dudenrother ski jump | ||
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 Dudenrother Schanze (right), photographed from the west from the inner wall. The inner ditch filled with water can be seen in the foreground. |
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| Alternative name (s): | Old Schanze, Old Castle, The Castle, The Castle of Dudenroth | |
| Creation time : | not known | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, ramparts, moats | |
| Place: | Dudenroth | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 5 '14.5 " N , 7 ° 32' 10.3" E | |
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The Dudenrother Schanze is a defunct Niederungsburg of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) on today's Schinderhannes Cycle Path near the municipality Braunshorn , district Dudenroth , in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
Nothing is known about the history of the castle. The builders are the Barons von Braunshorn , whose territory included Dudenroth and whose ancestral seat at Braunshorn Castle was only about 2 km away.
For Dudenroth goods are mentioned in 1438 that are owned by Johann vom Walde and Kraft von Reichenstein.
investment
In 1787 "the castle" is described as an entrenchment of about 200 shoes ( feet ) in diameter with two trenches and a high wall.
Karl August von Cohausen provides a more detailed account in 1852. He describes the ski jump as a round artificial hill, divided into two by a water-bearing excavation, surrounded by concentric ramparts and water-filled ditches . Except on the attack side, the walls were so narrow that they could not support a battlement . The main hill was 20 feet high and the outer dam was about 190 paces in diameter .
According to these descriptions, the Dudenrother Schanze was a medieval hilltop castle (Motte). Finds indicate a slate-covered half-timbered building.
The current system can only be seen in the remains of small ramparts and ditches, as the Hunsrück Railway was laid centrally from east to west through the hill at the beginning of the 20th century . According to the literature, this happened in 1905/1906, but the topographic map from 1903 already shows the railway line and the remains of the wall.
Finds
Cohausen found the mound riddled with excavation holes. On the surface, brick-red, rather hard-burned shards, apparently tiled clay and pieces of slate were visible. The surface of the shards was rough, sandy and decorated with scratched oblique lines. It is reported by residents that they have also found "black burned fruit" (charcoal?).
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Mötsch : Regesten of the archive of the counts of Sponheim . tape 4 (1426-1437) . Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 1987, ISBN 3-922018-77-7 , p. 395 .
- ^ A b c Karl August von Cohausen: Old entrenchments on the Hunsrück and their relationship to the fortress Rheinfels near St. Goar . In: Yearbooks of the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland . tape XVIII . Bonn 1852, p. 51 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral prince. Palatinate on the Rhine . tape III . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1787, p. 490 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ A b Karl August von Cohausen: The methods of fortification of prehistoric times and the Middle Ages . Wiesbaden 1898, p. 32 f .
- ^ A b c Reinhard Friedrich: Settlement studies on a group of castle hills in the Hunsrück . In: Interdisciplinary studies on European castle research, Festschrift for Horst Wolfgang Böhme on his 65th birthday, part 2 . Braubach 2005, ISBN 3-927558-24-9 . ( Publications of the German Castle Association . Series A: Research, Volume 9 , p. 63 f . )
- ↑ Helmut Hoppstätter: Guide to prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the Hunsrück . In: Series of publications by the Museum Simmern . tape 2 . Simmern 1968, p. 20 .