Ring wall Kulch

Ring wall Kulch
Creation time :	Early medieval
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall, two-part ring wall preserved
Place:	Bad Staffelstein - Altenbanz - "Kulch"
Geographical location	50 ° 9 '42.6 "  N , 10 ° 58' 38.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '42.6 "  N , 10 ° 58' 38.3"  E
Height:	475  m above sea level NHN

The ring wall Kulch is an abandoned early medieval ring wall system from presumably Ottonian times at 475  m above sea level. NHN on the Kulch (483 m) near Altenbanz , a district of Bad Staffelstein in the Lichtenfels district in Bavaria .

A two-part ring wall is still preserved from the former ring wall system. The main castle had an inner area of ​​about 160 by 80 meters and was surrounded by a wall up to 10 meters wide and a ditch up to 6 meters wide in front. The height difference between the crest of the wall and the bottom of the trench is around 4 meters today. In addition, there was a 320 meter long and up to 130 meter wide outer bailey in the southeast.

On the mountain chain there are still the ring wall Banzer Berg , the defunct Banz Castle and the defunct Steglitz Castle .

literature

• Denis André Chevalley (arr.): Upper Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Losert: The ring wall on the Kulch in the Banzer forest . Information sign A2 of the Celtic tour