Aurolfing ring wall

Aurolfing ring wall
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Creation time :	Early medieval
Castle type :	Wallburg, ring wall
Conservation status:	Castle stable, ramparts and moats preserved
Place:	Forsthart - Künzing -Flur "Hart"
Geographical location	48 ° 38 '46.4 "  N , 13 ° 0' 33.3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '46.4 "  N , 13 ° 0' 33.3"  E
Height:	364.8  m above sea level NN

The rampart Aurolfing is an Outbound Wallburg in the Forestry Department "hard", about 1900 meters northwest of the Catholic Expositurkirche St. Michael in Forsthart , in the municipality of Künzing in the Lower Bavarian district of Deggendorf in Bavaria . No historical or archaeological information is known about this circular rampart , it is roughly dated as early medieval . The well-preserved system on a tongue of land still shows almost the entire course of the wall-ditch-wall system with a pincer gate in the north, the southeast side is cut off by an erosion channel. The fortification is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7344-0106: “Ringwall of the early Middle Ages”.

description

The ring wall is located on a wide tongue of land facing northeast between the valley of the Aurolfinger Graben in the east and that of a small tributary in the west. The point of the tongue of the land is formed by the confluence of the two rivers. The area of ​​the fortification measures 200 meters in a south-west-north-east direction and up to 110 meters in a north-west-south-east direction. Today two recent forest roads lead from the south and from the south-east into the complex, both paths unite in the middle of the fortification and then run to the north through the former pincer gate. Almost all of its course, the ring wall shows a system of inner main wall, to which a trench was placed, and a rampart in front of the trench. This wall-ditch-wall system is only exposed on the southwest side, on which the terrain rises first as a ridge and then to a crest, here it is only designed as a main wall with a ditch in front. The main wall is still 0.3 meters high from the inner surface, then it drops from its wall crest 2.3 to 5.0 meters steeply to the bottom of the trench, whereupon the outer trench flank rises again one to two meters to the crown of the rampart.

From the southern entry of the forest path into the ring wall system, the fortification runs in a slightly pronounced S-shaped course up the slope 80 meters in a southeastern direction. Then it bends in a north-westerly direction, where it crosses a ridge for a length of 70 meters, here is also the only place where no rampart was built in front of the ditch. After crossing the ridge, it now runs down the slope in a north-easterly direction, bending around 120 meters, also in a slightly S-shaped course, to a well-defined pincer gate in the north of the facility. This pincer gate is formed by the approximately 20 meter long curve of the rampart into the interior of the complex. On the opposite side of this former gate, the wall-ditch-wall system runs parallel to the contour lines around 80 meters in an east-northeast direction. In this area, the main wall lacks the inner slope, which means that the wall only appears as a slope edge to the ditch. The eastern front of the ring wall is formed by the curve of the rampart in a south-southeast direction, this side is disturbed by several excavations. After about 80 meters, it turns back to the southwest, and here meets the steeply cut valley of an erosion channel that drains to the Aurolfinger Graben, which has removed the rampart over a length of 70 meters. The pilgrimage does not begin again until the forest path enters, approximately in the middle of the south side of the complex.

literature

• Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen (arrangement): Monuments in Bavaria . Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments, Volume II: Lower Bavaria . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52393-7 (on behalf of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ).
• Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 68.

Web links

• Entry on Aurolfing Castle in the private database "All Castles".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ List of monuments for Künzing (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 141 kB)
3. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 68