Ring wall Kulch
Ring wall Kulch | ||
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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 | |
Height: | 475 m above sea level NHN | |
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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
- ↑ Hans Losert: The ring wall on the Kulch in the Banzer forest . Information sign A2 of the Celtic tour