Hennethaler Landwehr
The Hennethaler Landwehr is a late medieval moat in the forest on the "Platte" near Hohenstein - Hennethal in the Untertaunus , in the Rheingau-Taunus district . It served to secure Limburger Strasse (Altstrasse) and was only rediscovered in 2003.
Location and description
The system is located between the villages of Daisbach , Hennethal and Kettenbach , around 300 m southwest of the connection between the L 3032 and the L 3031. The ditch-wall system itself is around 325 m long. It lies on the plate , a local planarization area. The trench wall system is 8 m wide on average. A wall about 1.0 m to 1.5 m high is preceded by trenches on both sides, each 0.3 m to 0.5 m deep. In the west there was probably a blow , that is, a customs post. The remains of former hedge trees can also be found on the wall .
It is located on the historical Limburger Strasse (1701 referred to as Limburgerstrasse ), which from the late Middle Ages to modern times , ie from the 14th to the 18th century, connected Limburg via the Zollhaus iron mining area to Eisenstrasse and the Rhine-Main area . Between Kettenbach and Daisbach, it crossed the Scheidertal, where a corresponding road was only built in 1897.
There are also several kiln sites in the area of the facility .
It is still unknown who had the Landwehr built, as no written evidence can be found today. Both the Counts of Nassau-Idstein and the Counts of Katzenelnbogen , who owned the nearby Holzhausen, come into question.
Today a historical educational trail with four information boards leads through the complex. Nearby is the Rahnstätter Hof desert .
Monument protection
The area of the ramparts is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.
literature
- C. Stolz, C. (2008): Historical rifts in the water catchment area of the Aar between Wiesbaden and Limburg . Geological treatises Hessen 117; also dissertation Univ.-Mainz 2005.
- Stolz, C. (2010): The deserted Rahnstätter Hof near Michelbach in the Taunus . In: Writings of the Regional and Folklore Working Group, 9, 16–30.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 35.9 ″ N , 8 ° 5 ′ 49 ″ E