Münterburg
The Münterburg is a 228 m high hill in Kachtenhausen -Wellentrup, a district of the city of Lage in the district of Lippe in North Rhine-Westphalia . The hill is located on a shell limestone ridge north of the Teutoburg Forest and was also called Calenberg in earlier times. On the Münter castle is the approximately 76.7-hectare conservation area of forest and meadow complex Münter castle .
Nothing is known about the origin of the field name Münterburg. "Muntburg" means in Old High German = protective castle. However, no evidence has yet been found for such a protective castle. According to Ludwig Hölzermann, there should have been a tower at this point in earlier times . Archaeological excavations at this point have not yet been carried out.
In the vicinity there are a number of barrows that are protected as ground monuments . In 2004, the early history professor Eva Stauch found Breitklingen from Feuerstein at Münterburg . They are likely to belong to the thirteenth millennium BC and are therefore the oldest evidence of human settlement in the area to date.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ Lippe: landscape plan position , p 106 (PDF)
- ↑ Friedrich Brand: On the genesis of the rural-agrarian settlements in the Lippe Osning foreland (= regional history maps and booklets of the Geographical Commission for Westphalia - series: Siedlung u. Landschaft in Westfalen, 6), Münster 1967, p. 40
- ↑ Ludwig Hölzermann : Local investigations, the wars of the Romans and Franks, as well as the fortification manners of the Teutons, Saxons and the later Middle Ages concerning , ed. from the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, Paderborn Department, Paderborn 1878.
- ↑ Karl Banghard: Archeology Helpups (PDF)
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ N , 8 ° 44 ′ E