Eifgenburg

Eifgenburg
	Ring wall of the Eifgenburg
Creation time :	9th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Ramparts, trenches
Place:	Eifgental near Burscheid -Sträßchen
Geographical location	51 ° 4 '28 " N , 7 ° 8' 36" E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '28 " N , 7 ° 8' 36" E
Height:	160 m above sea level NN

3D model of the Eifgenburg

The Eifgenburg is a former hillside castle and today a ground monument in Burscheid .

description

Location

On the right bank of the Eifgenbach , the Eifgenburg lies east of the village of Sträßchen on an elongated mountain ledge with a steep drop to the Eifgenbach valley and two sieves that open down into the valley. Here it is in an excellently protected place in a dense mixed forest. The terrain merges into a slowly rising terrain to the northwest.

Relics

Sparse finds of broken fragments suggest that it is an early medieval fortification from the 9th century. A stately shield wall with a wide trench in front can be found on the unprotected north-west side. The trench ends in front of the steep edges. The wall becomes an edge in the terrain. It is an almost triangular room with a size of about 50 × 140 meters. You can see the remains of a tower and a cellar . During an excavation, a pointed ditch, a wide berm and a complicated wall made of a 1.5 meter wide mortar wall on the front and behind a wooden, earth construction have been found on the northwest side. This wall bends in front of the eastern flank. This creates a gate with overlapping ends and a three-meter-wide gate passage.

Ground monument

The Eifgenburg is entered under No. 1 in the list of archaeological monuments in Burscheid .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b R. v. Uslar : The Bergisch ring walls , in Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1965, p. 105

Web links

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[Uslar-1] R. v. Uslar : The Bergisch ring walls , in Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1965, p. 105