Harenzhofen ring wall

Harenzhofen ring wall
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Creation time :	Prehistoric and early historical building
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall rest, partially built over
Place:	Velburg
Geographical location	49 ° 14 '20 "  N , 11 ° 35' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '20 "  N , 11 ° 35' 55.1"  E
Height:	515  m above sea level NHN

The Harenzhofen ring wall is located in the Harenzhofen district of the Upper Palatinate town of Velburg in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria . The ring wall system is located on the northeastern edge of the village and northeast of the subsidiary church of St. Egidius. The system is recorded in the BayernAtlas under the file number D-3-6735-0067 as an archaeological ground monument.

description

Where the Kapellenberg begins to drop to the south, there is an approximately 110 m long wall, which bends on both sides down the slope and disappears towards the road at the valley floor. The wall is up to 0.6 m high and up to 6 m wide, there is no trench. In the Bavaria Atlas, the ring wall is referred to as a “settlement with leveled ramparts” as well as prehistoric times. A little outside of Harenzhofen lies a group of burial mounds in a north-easterly direction 450 m from the town center, where finds from the Hallstatt period were made. It is not known whether these graves were related to the Wallsiedlung.

literature

• 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. 182.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harrenzhofen on Bayernatlas, accessed on April 28, 2020.