Ehrenburg (Hausen)

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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 Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '22.2 "  N , 8 ° 39' 17.6"  E
Height: 840  m above sea level NHN
Ehrenburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Ehrenburg

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.

Northern part of the shield wall with neck ditch

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.

Section wall

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.

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