Ringwall Old Castle (Drgendorf)

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Ringwall Old Castle
Creation time : Early medieval
Castle type : Ring wall, spur layer
Conservation status: Burgstall, ring wall with partial outer moat preserved
Place: Eggolsheim - Drgendorf - "Schlossberg"
Geographical location 49 ° 47 '57.8 "  N , 11 ° 7' 20.6"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '57.8 "  N , 11 ° 7' 20.6"  E
Height: 493.4  m above sea level NN
Ringwall Old Castle (Bavaria)
Ringwall Old Castle

The small ring wall of the Old Castle is an abandoned early medieval fortification on a mountain tongue, the so-called Schlossberg, which protrudes from the so-called Mirsberger Höhe on the Long Mile into the valley of the Eggerbach . It lies at 493.4  m above sea level. NN around 935 meters south-southeast of the Catholic parish church of St. Margaretha von Drgendorf in the Upper Franconian community of Eggolsheim in Bavaria , Germany . No historical or archaeological information is known about this hill fort; there are currently no finds that could date the complex. According to the type of fortification, it is dated to the Carolingian - Ottonian period. Only a ring wall with a partial outer ditch has survived from the complex ; the site is protected as a ground monument number D-4-6132-0125: "Early medieval ring wall system".

description

The ring wall is located on a mountain tongue extending to the west, which is about 180  meters above the valley floor. The oval, 55 x 35 meter inner surface of the fortification is enclosed on all sides by a ring wall, with this wall running in an arch on the steeply sloping west and north-west side and formed as a three-fold section wall on the east and south sides . On the east side, the wall is about two meters high and ten meters wide. The wall ring contains the remains of a dry stone wall . As a further obstacle to the approach, a ditch was placed in front of the ring wall on the slightly rising east side, which ends in the north and south at the respective slope edges. The earlier access was on the southwest side of the facility, the wall is a few meters there.

literature

  • Rainer Hofmann (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 153-154.
  • Björn-Uwe Abels : Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0373-3 , pp. 127 and 128.
  • Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1955, p. 73.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Eggolsheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 161 kB)
  2. ↑ Location of the ring wall in the Bavaria Atlas
  3. ↑ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Franconia Volume 2: Archaeological Guide Upper Franconia , p. 127