Ringwall Hünstein

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Ringwall Hünstein
Creation time : Hallstatt period, La Tène period
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of ramparts and moats
Place: near Holzhausen (Dautphetal)
Geographical location 50 ° 48 '9.9 "  N , 8 ° 32' 3.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '9.9 "  N , 8 ° 32' 3.5"  E
Height: 504  m above sea level NN
Ringwall Hünstein (Hesse)
Ringwall Hünstein

The ring wall Hünstein is an abandoned ring wall system on the Hünstein near Holzhausen , a district of the municipality of Dautphetal in the central Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf .

history

The ring wall was probably built during the Hallstatt or Latène times . It is located in a zone of ore-bearing diabase on the eastern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains about one kilometer southeast of Holzhausen on the 504-meter-high Hünstein of the same name . The Daubhaus ring wall system located approx. 850 m to the south on the mountain of the same name is also classified in the same time horizon .

The oval system was about 150 meters long. To the north and west it was bordered by natural diabase cliffs. In front of the main ring there was another angled ring with an earth wall up to two meters high. In front of this wall was a trench about ten meters wide and about two meters deep . The ends of the wall ran out without a direct connection to the slope.

Small remains of walls and visible moats are still present from the ring wall system. So far, no relatable finds at the time of origin have been made.

literature

  • Wolfgang Dehn: Contributions to ring wall research in Hessen . In: Find reports from Hessen 3 (1963), pp. 83ff. (Plan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LAGIS, Paragraph Castles and Fortifications
  2. ^ Heinrich Janke: Inventory of the prehistoric and early historical monuments in Hessen, Der Kreis Biedenkopf, Volume II, pages 12/13, R. Habelt Verlag GmbH Bonn, 1973