Ringwall Gebhardshagen
| Ringwall Gebhardshagen | |
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 Ringwall Gebhardshagen |
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| Creation time : | Early middle ages |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains |
| Construction: | limestone |
| Place: | Salzgitter - Gebhardshagen |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 6 '16.4 " N , 10 ° 20' 34.3" E |
| Height: | 172.5 m above sea level NHN |
The Gebhardshagen ring wall is an old ring wall in the Gebhardshagen district of the city of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony . The fortifications located in the forest today are probably an early medieval refugee castle .
description
The ring wall is located on a pass that leads through the Salzgitter ridge . The hilltop castle in the form of an irregular quadrangle has an area of around 200 × 260 meters and covers an area of 2.4 hectares. It consisted of a wall that is still around 10 meters wide and 80 cm high. The facility was enclosed by a trench that was up to 8 meters wide and almost 70 cm deep.
There is no written record of the system. It was documented by Carl Schuchhardt in 1915 . In 1933 a 2.5 meter thick dry stone wall made of limestone was discovered inside the earth wall .
literature
- Paul Jonas Meier : The architectural and art monuments of the Wolfenbüttel district , Wolfenbüttel 1906, p. 328.
Web links
- Entry by Gudrun Pischke zu Gebhardshagen, Burgwall in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Gebhardshagen castle wall in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas