Oppidum Vladař

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Oppidum Vladař
Remains of the castle on the Vladař

Remains of the castle on the Vladař

Place: Žlutice
Geographical location 50 ° 4 '47.7 "  N , 13 ° 12' 55.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '47.7 "  N , 13 ° 12' 55.5"  E
Oppidum Vladař (Czech Republic)
Oppidum Vladař

The oppidum Vladař , also called oppidum Záhořice , is located on the Vladař mountain in western Bohemia near the village of Záhořice (German: Sahors ), today a district of Žlutice in the Karlovy Vary district , which is on the right bank of the Střela river (German: Schnella ) rises to a height of 693 meters and is part of the Tepler highlands . The visible ramparts cover an area of ​​more than 100 hectares and are around 3 km long.

Remains of at least one typical Celtic pincer gate can be seen in the west, and there was also a gate in the north. A detailed archaeological research has not yet taken place, only a precise survey was carried out in 2002 and a lidar or airborne laser scan was carried out in 2010. Findings from reading suggest that the settlement was at its peak in the late Bronze Age , but above all in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Finds from the Iron Age are largely unknown. However, the gate system indicates that the square was also used during the La Tène period . Already because of the delimited area this should have been a prehistorically important place, whether one can actually speak of an oppidum has yet to be clarified due to the fact that it is still missing from the late Iron Age.

Floor plan of the facility on a display board

literature

  • W. Dehn: Les oppida celtiques de La Tène II et III en Bohême et en Moravie. In: Celticum. 9, Rennes 1964, p. 82,
  • M. Chytráček, M. Metlička: The hill settlements of the Hallstatt and Latène times in western Bohemia. (= Památky Archeologické. Supplementum 16). Prague 2004, pp. 276-283.
  • M. Chytráček, L. Šmejda: On the importance of the Vladař in the settlement structure of the Hallstatt and La Tène periods in Western Bohemia. Archaeological Working Group East Bavaria / West and South Bohemia, Rahden / Westphalia, 2006, pp. 50–67.
  • P. Pokorný, M. Kaplan: Paleoecological investigation of the fortified area on the Vladař hill. Objectives, methodological requirements and first results. Archaeological Working Group East Bavaria / West and South Bohemia, Rahden / Westphalia, 2004, pp. 106–125.
  • M. Chytráček: The development of Celtic society and questions about continuity or discontinuity in the Hallstatt and Latène period settlement of western Bohemia. In: J. Prammer, R. Sandner, C. Tappert: Siedlungsdynamik und Gesellschaft. Contributions to the international colloquium on the history of Celtic settlement in the Bavarian Danube region, Austria and the Czech Republic, 2. – 4. March 2006 in the Gäubodenmuseum Straubing. (= Annual report of the historical association for Straubing and the surrounding area. Special volume 3). Straubing 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022637-3 , pp. 283-312.

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