Ensdorf ring wall

Ensdorf ring wall
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Alternative name (s):	Wallburg Hierlberg, Wallanlage Hierlberg
Creation time :	Prehistory and early history
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall and moat remains
Place:	Ensdorf (Upper Palatinate)
Geographical location	49 ° 20 '50.7 "  N , 11 ° 56' 15.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '50.7 "  N , 11 ° 56' 15.4"  E
Height:	450  m above sea level NHN

The ring wall Ensdorf , also called Wallburg Hierlberg , is located in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Ensdorf in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria . The ring wall is located in the Hierlberg (Hirlberg) corridor , approx. 450 m north of the Ensdorf church.

description

On the tip of a flat, south-protruding tongue of the Alb plateau between the Vils and Schustertal valleys, an irregularly round wall surrounds the bare knoll , which is separated from the hinterland by a deep hollow. The wall is still 0.1-0.4 m high inside, the enclosed area is 26 × 22 m. In the west, a sickle-shaped, flattened embankment can be seen 11 m away. A gate cannot be located with certainty, the existing wall interruptions can be traced back to excavation cuts. Stones are built into the wall.

history

Due to excavations by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in 1932, numerous fragments from the Urnfield period were found. These are located in the Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate in Amberg . Further high and late medieval readings (gold mica clay) are kept in the Regensburg Historical Museum .

literature

• Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 87.

Web links

• Entry on Wallburg Hierlberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ensdorf on the Urkaster in Bayern Atlas ; accessed on May 11, 2020.
2. ↑ Thomas Fischer, Erika Riedmeier-Fischer: Archaeological excavations and finds in the Upper Palatinate 1983 , p. 278 (PDF file; 31.16 MB); accessed on May 12, 2020