Ringwall Laar

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Ringwall Laar
Alternative name (s): Laarer wall
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a wall
Place: Zierenberg - Laar
Geographical location 51 ° 24 '33.8 "  N , 9 ° 17' 8.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '33.8 "  N , 9 ° 17' 8.5"  E
Height: 280  m above sea level NHN
Ringwall Laar (Hesse)
Ringwall Laar

The Ringwall Laar , also called Laarer Wand , is the remainder of a 9th century spur castle near Laar , a district of Zierenberg in the north Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The Burgstall is located about 4.5 km north of the core town of Zierenberg in the Habichtswald Nature Park and about 500 m northeast of Laar Castle . It is located to the east above the valley of the Diemel tributary Warm at a little more than 280  m above sea level. NHN in the forest, on a western spur of the maximum 336.6  m high Hagen .

The former castle can be reached from the country road  3211 leading between Zierenberg and Obermeiser past the hamlet of Laar on an approximately 800 m long hiking and forest path, the 100 m east of the Warm from the Fulda-Diemel-Weg , a hiking trail between the rivers Fulda im East and Diemel in the northwest, branches off to the northeast and curves up the mountain.

investment

In the former castle, the ramparts are obtained from the now only remains, it was a hill fort with a mighty silicone matrix and former Interior gemörteltem Bering. The complex was probably destroyed by King Otto I in 938 when he marched off with his army from the Eresburg while suppressing the prince rebellion led by Duke Eberhard von Franken .

Excavations were carried out on site in 1937/38. Interestingly, in 1902, before digging and deeper research, the “Commission for Research into Prehistoric and Early Medieval Fortifications in Hesse” spoke of the “Sachsenburg near Laar”.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Cremer Folkhard, Wolf Tobias Michael (arrangement) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2008
  • State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (edit.): City and District of Kassel, Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany 7. Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart, 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Heinrich Luden: Geschichte des Teutschen Volkes , Volume 6, Perthes, Gotha, 1831, p. 427
  3. ^ Messages to the members of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies. Year 1901, p. 16