Ohlenburg
The Ohlenburg is a medieval rampart in the southern Sackwald in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony . Their remains are on the northeast slope of the Gehlenberg .
Location and description
The wall that has been preserved is 160 meters long and, after a kink, 50 meters long. Part of the semi-oval rampart has probably been leveled in the area of a pasture paddock. The wall is partly double and has an inner trench. Partly it is a wall with an inner and an outer trench. From the bottom of the trench to the crest of the wall, the wall is still around one meter high. At the north-eastern Wallende a 400 meter long wall with a ditch stretches up the Feldberg.
In 1937 the Alfeld local researcher Wilhelm Barner carried out excavations . According to his investigations, the complex consisted of a rampart with a palisade , a small ditch, a main wall, a pointed ditch and an inner wall with a palisade. Masonry was not used. Traces of settlement were not found. A ceramic remnant can be dated between 700 and 900. A ceramic fragment of a spherical pot dated to the 11th century. A historical tradition of the ramparts is not yet known.
The excavator Barner saw the complex as a refuge . More recently, other possible purposes have been mentioned, such as an external fortification of the Hohen Schanze , a defense system for the Hornsen Vorwerk of Winzenburg Castle or the fortification of the Rimmerode desert .
Fortifications nearby
literature
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 184-185.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '7.2 " N , 9 ° 58' 3.4" E