Earthwork in Taitinger wood
The small earthwork in Taitinger Holz is a ground monument in the Dasing community in the Aichach-Friedberg district in Swabia . The plant is located in Taitinger Holz, west of the local road from Taiting to Zahling . It is located about 480 meters northeast of the St. Lorenz Chapel in Latzenhausen on the eastern edge of a large material pit.
It is an elevation 20 meters long, 7 meters wide and one meter high. It is surrounded by a ditch that has been preserved in places to a depth of one meter. In the west a narrow earth ramp gives access over the ditch. Several other similar hills have survived in the vicinity.
An inspection or investigation by archaeologists is still pending. The district home keeper Hubert Raab interprets the facility as a former bird hearth , i.e. a place where bird trapping devices were once set up. In the immediate vicinity of the ground monument is a burial mound , where Raab also sees a bird trap and a birdcatcher's hide (rocker) . The approximately 1.60 meter high embankment is located about 40 meters east across the local road.
Raab bases his interpretation on research by Hermann Kerscher (Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, see lit.). This researcher differentiates between two basic types of such systems for Bavaria. The earthwork in Taitinger Holz corresponds to type 1. Comparable longitudinally oval flocks of birds are surrounded by a shallow ditch, are 10 to 25 meters long and up to 10 meters wide. A very similar Vogelherd is located east-northeast of Appersdorf near Tiefenbach ( Landshut district ) in the area. Type 2 was rectangular and mostly without a ditch. The copperplate engraver Michael Wening reported such trapping sites on some of his engravings . The nets and hedges around the facilities are also shown here, as are the huts of the bird catchers (Anzing Castle, Haimhausen Castle, Munich Residence ).
In the surrounding area, field and house names such as Vogelsberg, Vogelfängeracker, Vogelsperre and zum Vogelfänger also indicate flocks of birds that have disappeared today. The earlier importance of bird trapping in this region is also documented by the depiction of an angel on the altar of grace in the pilgrimage church Herrgottsruh in nearby Friedberg . The angel holds a lark net with the associated poles in his hands. According to information provided by the district archivist H. Rischert, a very similar elongated oval bird hearth can also be found in the archives about 900 meters west-northwest of the church in Gallenbach. About 2800 meters northeast of the facility in Taitinger Holz, the monument office has registered another modern bird hearth under monument number D 7-7532-0112 near Griesbeckerzell.
The earthwork in Taitinger Holz was entered in the list of monuments by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as a bird hearth of the early modern era . (Monument number D 7-7532-0043). The embankment on the other side of the local connecting road is still listed as a burial mound.
literature
- Hermann Kerscher: Il Roccolo - The Rockerl . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria 1990. Stuttgart 1991, p. 183 ff.
- Hermann Kerscher: Bird herd in northeast Bavaria . In: The archaeological year in Bavaria 1991. Stuttgart 1992, p. 201 ff.
proof
- ↑ Hubert Raab: Birds with the cock and herd of birds - A cultural-historical and literary treatise on bird trapping in earlier times with special consideration of the Aichach-Friedberg district . In: Theo Körner et al .: Altbayern in Schwaben - Yearbook for History and Culture 2002. Aichach, 2002. ISBN 3-9802017-5-9 , p. 76 ff.
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '53.3 " N , 11 ° 2' 15.8" E