Ehrenburg (Hausen)
Ehrenburg | ||
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Creation time : | 700 to 1000 | |
Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
Conservation status: | Burgstall, moat | |
Place: | Geisingen | |
Geographical location | 47 ° 56 '22.2 " N , 8 ° 39' 17.6" E | |
Height: | 840 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Ehrenburg is an Outbound hilltop castle about 800 meters north of the northern town of 840 m above sea level. NHN of the city of Geisingen in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
The spur castle was probably built in the 8th to 11th centuries as an early medieval rampart. A double moat has been preserved from the former castle complex.
investment
The actual fortification covers an area of about 0.7 hectares . It consists of a shield wall with a neck ditch that protects the spur from the main attack side. The wall runs from northwest to southeast and is about 80 meters long. Where the wall approaches the spur sides, it is led along the flanks so that the entire spur tip is enclosed. The fortification of the flanks is much lower than the shield wall and partly barely recognizable. The system is broken through by a forest path that crosses the northern wall and then roughly follows the course of the spur ridge.
About 80 meters away from the shield wall, the spur is secured towards the main attack side by another section wall with a pre-ditch.
literature
- Michael Losse, Hans Noll, Michael Greuter (Eds.): Castles, palaces, fortresses in Hegau - fortifications and aristocratic residences in the western Lake Constance area . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Hegau-Bibliothek, Volume 109 . Michael Greuter Verlag, Hilzingen 2006, ISBN 3-938566-05-1 , p. 85.
Web links
- Entry on Ehrenburg (Wallburg) in the private database "Alle Burgen".