Lützelburg (Christenberg)

Lützelburg
Creation time :	later Hallstatt period
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Remnants of a moat system
Place:	Munchausen
Geographical location	50 ° 57 '33 "  N , 8 ° 44' 50"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '33 "  N , 8 ° 44' 50"  E
Height:	320  m above sea level NHN

The Lützelburg is the rest of a spur castle at 320  m above sea level. NN in the municipality of Münchhausen in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .

The remains of the complex are located on a wooded, roughly triangular mountain cone in front of the Christenberg to the northwest. It is a flat, slightly sloping mountain plateau to the west with a surrounding, pronounced edge.

Only the remains of a wall and moat system have survived from the castle .

Judging by the ceramic finds, the complex was a prehistoric ring wall from the later Hallstatt period , probably a predecessor of the early Celtic complex of the Christian Mountain.

It has not been proven that the remains of the trench wall system were still in use in the early Middle Ages .

literature

• Gerhard Eisel: Geographical settlement research in the southern Burgwald Marburg geographical writings 24. Marburg 1965
• Rolf Gensen: Christenberg, Burgwald and Amöneburg Basin and the Merovingian and Carolingian times. Althessen im Frankenreich, 1975, pp. 121–172
• Georg Wilhelm Sante (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 4: Hessen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 274). Unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-520-27403-5 .

Web links

• Lützelburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

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1. ^ Christenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of July 23, 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on November 5, 2012 .