Ring head
The Ringkopf is a ring wall system from Celtic times (around 520 BC) east-southeast of Allenbach and south of Sensweiler on a quartz ridge of the Black Forest high forest at an altitude of 650 m. The "head" can be reached from Allenbach on foot on a forest path (well signposted) of approx. 3.7 km. The Celtic-Roman adventure path Sirona-Weg through the Hunsrück and Naheland leads over the Ringkopf.
The triangular plateau is almost 1 hectare in size. Systematic excavations in 1935/36 were quite unproductive despite extensive explorations, so that it must be assumed that, in contrast to the ring wall of Otzenhausen or Bundenbach, it was not a dominant center for the surrounding area. The agriculturally used high valley around Allenbach, which can be seen from the summit in the north, and the adjacent Idarwald were not inhabited even in Celtic times. Therefore the catchment area is probably in the south towards Siesbachto search. There, at a distance of about 4.5 km, but not visible from here, is the magnificent grave complex in the “Kipp” forest district. Another testimony to early settlement speaks for this assumption. In 1952, during restoration work on the church of Heiligenbösch near Leisel, the foundations of a bathing facility of a Roman estate (villa rustica) were discovered under the church floor. The distance between the two sites is only about 3 km as the crow flies and 5 km on foot.
Presumably the system on the ring head was only used sporadically; it is unclear why. The ring system with its old, dilapidated outer walls and the access road with the 34 m long and 5 m wide Torgasse can still be traced today. The construction is that of the classic post slit wall - called by Caesar Murus Gallicus .
literature
- Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (Ed.): Guide to the Archaeological Monuments of the Trier Land, Trier 2012.
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '2.52 " N , 7 ° 12' 16.92" E.