Hollerburg
| Hollerburg | ||
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| Creation time : | probably 9th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Construction: | Wood earthwork | |
| Place: | Kirkel | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| Height: | 340 m above sea level NN | |
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The Holler Castle is an Outbound hilltop castle on 340 m above sea level. NN at a foothill of the Hirschberg near the municipality of Kirkel in the Saarpfalz district in Saarland . There is a Roman rock cellar near the castle site, called "Hollerlöcher".
history
The establishment of the Hollerburg probably goes back to the 9th century and was an early medieval "wood-earth system", a round building made of wood. The castle was probably the predecessor of the Kirkel castle, which was possibly founded before 1075, and served as a protective castle for the old road from Metz to Mainz . However, these assumptions have not been archaeologically proven.
The Burgstall (Burgstelle), indicated by a notice board on the Kirkeler Felsenpfad , only gives an idea of the dimensions and impresses with the Hollerkanzel ledge .
Legends tell of mysterious beings who dress in a web of bark and moss and mislead people who dare to venture into the forest here between January 2nd and 3rd .
literature
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon, Volume 2: FH . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , pp. 421–423.
- Robert Seyler: Castles and palaces on the Saar in: "Journal for the history of the Saar region V" from 1955.