Moth Orenhofen
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| Alternative name (s): | Burgknopp | |
| Creation time : | Early middle ages | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Orenhofen | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 54 '10.3 " N , 6 ° 40' 20.8" E | |
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The moth Orenhofen is an Outbound early medieval Turmhügelburg (moth) directly to the national road 2 on the eastern edge of Orenhofen in Bitburg-Prüm in Rheinland-Pfalz .
Location and name
The district is called Burgknopp in the cadastre as well as in the dialect . The vernacular wrongly assumes to this day that it is a burial mound - more precisely a Roman grave - and not a fortification. The original tower hill had a height of about eight meters with a diameter of 15 meters to 20 meters. The artificially raised elevation, which was originally surrounded by a ditch , is the only visible remaining feature of the complex. Excavations took place in 1860, 1912 and 1926. Ceramics (including the remains of a spherical pot) and tools were found. There were no more remains of the wooden palisade , the tower and the farm buildings. The motte probably had the task of protecting the iron ore mines located in the immediate vicinity of what is now the Schönfeld district . In the Middle Ages here and found melting. The ore mining was finally stopped there in the middle of the 19th century.
See also
literature
- Karl E. Becker: memory. Space and time. History - Landscape - Development , Verlag Verbandsgemeinde Speicher, Speicher (Eifel) 1981, p. 53 f.
- Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 .
- Robert P. Reuter: The Fidei - the habitat of our ancestors. Heliosverlag, 2003, pp. 79-83.
Web links
- Entry on Roman grave (Orenhofen) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .