Ringwall Lindelberg

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Ringwall Lindelberg
Alternative name (s): Burgstall Lindelburg
Creation time : Springtime La Tène
Castle type : Höhenburg, Walburg
Conservation status: Burgstall, walls preserved
Place: Neunkirchen am Brand - Rödlas - " Lindelberg "
Geographical location 49 ° 37 '38.2 "  N , 11 ° 11' 18.2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '38.2 "  N , 11 ° 11' 18.2"  E
Height: 545  m above sea level NN
Ringwall Lindelberg (Bavaria)
Ringwall Lindelberg

The rampart Lindelberg , as Postal Lindelburg called, is a Outbound probably from the Early La Tène originating Ringwallanlage on the Lindenberg in Rödlas , a district of the market town of Neunkirchen in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria .

The ring wall , an almost square rampart without a ditch, occupies the approximately 1500 meters long and 200 meters wide summit plateau of the Lindelberg. The walls of the ring wall system are still preserved.

In the southwest corner, on the highest point of the Lindenberg at 545  m above sea level. NN , there is the Burgstall Lindelburg (Burgstall Lindelberg), an early medieval ring wall system, built into the larger ring wall Lindelberg. No remains of this complex have survived. Traces of dry stone walls are still mentioned at all castles .

literature

  • Rainer Hofmann ( editing ), Björn-Uwe Abels , among others: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 20: Franconian Switzerland . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8 , pp. 199-200
  • Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Bertold Freiherr von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside , self-published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft eV, 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hofmann 1990, pp. 199ff.
  2. ^ Entry on Wallburg Lindelberg in the private database "Alle Burgen".