Ringwall Güldenberg

Ringwall Güldenberg
Güldenberg, western area
Creation time :	Iron age
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Troisdorf - Altenrath
Geographical location	50 ° 50 '4.9 "  N , 7 ° 11' 34.1"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '4.9 "  N , 7 ° 11' 34.1"  E

Floor plan drawing

The ring wall Güldenberg is a fortification ( hill castle ) from the Iron Age in the Altenrath district of Troisdorf .

Object description

Remains of the earth walls on the Güldenberg are still present today on the eastern edge of the Wahner Heide , about 2500 m south of Altenrath and 1200 m southwest of Lohmar . Here the most suitable point for the facility was selected, namely the hilltop. The terrain slopes steeply to the east and is cordoned off in the south by a sieve . To the west and north, the area merges into the plateau of the heather terrace . Therefore, there is a wall here with a trench. Behind it the ring wall is the strongest, up to four meters high; a wide trench is presented. Here you can see the gate with the earth bridge over the moat. In front of the steep slope, the wall and ditch gradually run out. This encloses a horseshoe-shaped room, about 170 X 180 m in size.

The ring wall shows similarities to the Erdenburg in Moitzfeld in the north and to a system on the Petersberg in the south.

history

From the fragments found during excavation work in 1936, historians conclude that the Sugambres came from the La Tène period from 1000 to 50 BC. Have built the plant. An investigation of fire residues with the radiocarbon method has not yet taken place. Such a result could be similar to that of the Erdenburg, which has an age of 310 ± 80 BC. Has revealed.

Ground monument

The ring wall system is registered as ground monument SU-061 in the register of ground monuments in the Rhineland.

See also

• Wall castles in the Bergisches Land
• Eifgenburg
• Erdenburg
• Ringwall Lüderich

literature

• Werner Buttler : Wall installation Güldenberg near Lohmar, Altenrath (Siegkreis) - Bonner Jahrbücher, 142 (1937): pp. 292–295, Cologne.
• R. v. Uslar : Bergische ring walls. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1963, p. 137 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} R. v. Uslar: The Bergischen ring walls , in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1965, p. 100-101.
2. ↑ Erdenburg - examined in the laboratory, scientists discovered: Older than 2000 years , in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar, 1970, p. 170