Ringwall Mittelstetten

The eastern rampage to the north

The crest of the eastern section wall

The north-western section of the ramparts

Looking back into the ditch

The presumably early medieval ring wall of Mittelstetten (corridor "Burgholz") is located about 600 meters northwest of Mittelstetten (Tegernbach district) in the Fürstenfeldbruck district in Upper Bavaria on a hill.

description

The Burgplatz is about 20 to 25 meters above the valley. In the east, a section wall up to 1.5 meters high separates the area from the ridge. The sole ditch presented with its low edge wall is around 1.5 meters deep here.

The oval of the ramparts (approx. 110 × 130 meters) covers an area of approximately 1.2 hectares. The State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a section fortification. In fact, the ditch runs around the hill plateau, the slopes are artificially divided.

The interior of the facility bulges a few meters in the northwest. The slope trench runs about seven meters below the slope edge. On the other steep slopes, the difference to the bottom of the trench is between three and five meters.

The arch-shaped section wall in the east probably goes back to a collapsed wood-earth wall, as can be proven in other ramparts of this period. The remaining sections of the fortifications probably only carried palisades or wattle fences. The gate is likely to have been in the modern, expanded wall gap in the north of the section wall.

The previously completely forested area was cleared from 2004 and then planted with young forest.

Time and purpose

The ground monument has not yet been archaeologically examined. The good preservation and the design of the complex speak for an early medieval era. Two similar ramparts are only a few kilometers northwest in the Hartwald near Mering . In its final stage of development, the Vordere Schlossberg is interpreted as a smaller Hungarian fortress from the 10th century. The prehistoric ramparts of the Hinterer Schlossberg are also likely to have been expanded during the time of the Hungarian storms . Another seven kilometers to the north is another castle of this type and comparable size on the Lechrain near Kissing ( ring wall in Ottmaringer Holz ). The village of Mittelstetten first appeared in the documents in 788.

The local nobility "von Mittelstetten", which can be proven in the High Middle Ages, probably had its residence in the village. The ring wall shows no features of a high medieval continued use as a ministerial castle .

The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as an early medieval section fortification under monument number D 1-7732-0017.