Hüttengraben (Ludwigshafen)

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Hüttengraben from the north

The place called Hüttengraben is probably the ditch of a former village enclosure, it is a mighty rectangular hill from a wide ditch with a former earth wall on the inside. It is located in a field southwest of the Ludwigshafen district of Oggersheim .

For many centuries it was thought to be the moat of a former Roman fortification. Archaeological investigations under the direction of the Office for Prehistory and Early History and the Historisches Museum in Speyer in 1965 showed, however, that these are settlement remains from the 10th or 11th century. The excavations showed that the settlement from 10./11. was inhabited until the 14th century. In this settlement there was a chapel, the remains of which can be dated back to 1280. The Zollhütte is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1323. In the Middle Ages, the Oggersheim gallows was located there, which is why it is also shown as a gallows hump in older maps - the Armsünderweg still leads to the north entrance of the facility today.

The rectangular shape of the trench with a size of 200 × 300 m is striking, the surrounding trench itself is still two meters deep. The Roman trunk road from Strasbourg to Mainz leads directly through the Hüttengraben, which is covered in parts by today's federal highway 9 . The settlement with the customs hut inside the hut ditch was called Mittelhank or Mittelhaug .

legend

Numerous legends arose around the complex; the plague is said to have put an end to the settlement. Later the area with the ditch is said to have been used as a sheep pasture. According to the legend of Oggersheimer Hüttenhammel, a mutton is said to have shown itself again and again at lunchtime, which then - in human form - would have hurried away again.

literature

  • Jürgen Keddigkeit: Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Volume II: FH. Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X .
  • Viktor Carl: Palatinate sagas and legends. Edenkoben 2000, ISBN 3-9804668-3-3 .
  • Helmut Seebach: Legends in the Palatinate: ghosts, witches, devils. Bachstelz-Verlag Seebach, 1996, ISBN 3-924115-17-6 , p. 281 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Sprater : Der Hüttengraben near Oggersheim , Germanen-Erbe, Volume 3, JA Barth, 1938, pp. 79–81.
  2. ↑ Helmut Bernhard : Hüttengraben / Oggersheim , Fund reports from the Palatinate, 1966–1970: Early History - Early Middle Ages, State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate, Department of Soil Monument Preservation, Speyer branch, 1984.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Graf von Leiningen sells Ludwig the Bavarian (...) his rights to the. "Hut to Mittelhank"
  4. ↑ A disappeared settlement - Zollhütte in Hüttengraben and the village of Mittelhaug
  5. ↑ Paolo Parisi, Karl-Heinz Halbedl, Legends and Stories from Ludwigshafen am Rhein , (No. 51 Der Hüttenhammel and the Hüttengraben , p. 89 ff.) 2nd edition, Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher u. a. 2016; Table of contents online: [1]

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 33.8 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 34.9"  E