Pöppendorfer ring wall

The Pöppendorfer ring wall from the south

The Pöppendorfer Ringwall is a castle wall on the road from the village of Pöppendorf to the Waldhusener Forest . Pöppendorf is part of the Lübeck district of Kücknitz in Schleswig-Holstein . It is one of the best preserved and most handsome castle walls in East Holstein . In addition, it is considered a textbook example of Slavic castle walls.

Dimensions

Pöppendorfer ring wall south of Pöppendorf near Lübeck. Steps run from the street to the top of the wall.

Pöppendorfer ring wall south of Pöppendorf near Lübeck. Indoor.

The ring wall was built on a small hill, which is surrounded in the northeast by a damp lowland. It has a diameter of about 100 m and a height of 8–12 m above the surroundings and 3–6 m above the interior. The height of the ring wall is lower in the northeast in the direction of the wet lowland than in the southwest. The gate is also oriented to the northeast.

history

The ring wall was built in the 8th century by the Wagrians and abandoned around the year 1000. The ceramics picked up in the interior and in the western wall removal are Middle Slavic. The wall was no longer used at the time of the existence of Alt Lübeck or when the chronicles of the 11th and 12th centuries began. With him lying on the "Pöppendorfer neck" Slavonic are by K. Hucke barrows to be associated.

The settlement belonging to the ring wall was located in the southwest next to the ring wall. Deep-engraved shards from the Neolithic Age were recognized under the ceramic . This gave food to the assumption that a megalithic complex was hidden under the inside of the wall . Large boulders that were found during trial pits in the first half of the 19th century speak in favor of this assumption .

The castle wall is a listed building.