Kumenberg
| Kumenberg | ||
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| height | 285 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Lower Austria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Vienna Woods | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 19 '11 " N , 16 ° 12' 42" E | |
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| Type | Foothills | |
| particularities | Bronze Age settlement finds | |
The Kumenberg is not an independent mountain , but a (northwest) rock spur of the Wienerwald Mountains, which borders directly on the east of the Lower Austrian market town of St. Andrä-Wölker and is thus probably the most northwestern "branch" of the Wienerwald Mountains.
The Kumenberg is separated from the rest of the mountain range by a neck ditch , which runs in a north-south direction and is approx. 40 meters wide and 3–4 meters deep. On the Kumenberg there is a system of irregular quadrangular shape, which measures approx. 80 × 50 meters and probably represents an artificially leveled plateau . There are traces of a fortification or a fortified hilltop settlement from the Early Bronze Age or Middle Bronze Age (probably attributable to the Věteřov culture ( Böheimkirchner group )) and also finds from the urnfield culture .
Presumably in 803, Charlemagne "defeated" the Avars in a battle on the Kumenberg .
The St. Andrä II and St. Andrä III castle stables are in the immediate vicinity of the Kumenberg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Trnka. Early Bronze Age weir systems in Austria (PDF file; 526 kB)
- ↑ Austria Lexicon - Sankt Andrä-Wierter
- ↑ Avars in Peter Schel's Medieval Lexicon ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lower Austria Atlas / 'Castles and Palaces'
