Heidenwall (Dehlthun)
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| Creation time : | around 800 - 900 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Ditches, walls | |
| Place: | Dehlthun, Ganderkesee community | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 1 '40.7 " N , 8 ° 29' 36.9" E | |
| Height: | 55 m above sea level NN | |
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The Heidenwall near Dehlthun is a ring wall in the municipality of Ganderkesee in the district of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony .
location
The facility is located about 3.5 km west of the center of Ganderkesee, near Bergedorfer Landstrasse (K232). It has been included in the series of archaeological adventure routes in the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park .
The ring wall was probably built in the 9th or 10th century. It lies on a Geestsporn that comes from the northeast into the swampy lowlands of the catfish . To the north, about 200 m away, ran an important long-distance trade route, the Ostfriesische Straße , which connected Bremen with Leer . The archaeologist Bernhard Uhl assigns the Heidenwall Dehlthun together with the fortifications Sierhauser Schanzen , the Quatmannsburg near Elsten and the Hünenburg in Stöttinghausen as supporting forts of what he sees as the centrally located large complex Arkeburg near Goldenstedt . The old place name Dehlthun is derived from Dehle = lowland and Thun = fence, i.e. about fencing in the lowland.
construction
The dimensions of the oval floor plan are 82.5 × 66 m. The facility was surrounded by a 4 m high wall, whereby it cannot be said whether it was a wood-earth construction or a double-shell plague wall with an earth core. The wall is surrounded in the northeast and east by a ditch only 1 m deep but 6 m wide. This is followed by a 1 m high and 5 m wide outer wall. The entrance was probably in the northwest area. To the east, 50 m and 500 m away, there were two more arched walls, but they have now been leveled. Two stick dams in the direction of Thienfelde (in the north) and in the direction of Hof Ohe (in the south-west) have been identified.
The Heidenwall was probably not permanently inhabited. There is much to suggest that it served as a refuge from uninvited foreign intruders, such as the Vikings .
Individual evidence
- ^ "Heidenwall" ring wall , accessed on November 9, 2014.
- ↑ Information board on Heidenwall
- ↑ Route 1: Stones and Mo (o) re , accessed on November 9, 2014.
- ^ Bernhard Uhl: Arkeburg and Sierhäuser Schanzen, two old fortifications of the Münsterland . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg, vol. 16. 1908. P. 348
literature
- Pastor Fritz Bultmann. History of the community of Ganderkesee and the Delmenhorster Geest. Ganderkesee 1952.
- Hermann Mester. Thienfelde, Heidenwall, Hof Ohe . Ganderkesee 1992.