Ring wall Röschberg

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Ring wall Röschberg
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Creation time : Prehistoric and early historical building
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Kleinberghausen (Freystadt) - Freystadt
Geographical location 49 ° 8 '53.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 49.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '53.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 49.1"  E
Height: 530  m above sea level NHN
Ringwall Röschberg (Bavaria)
Ring wall Röschberg

The Röschberg ring wall is located south of Kleinberghausen , today a district of the Upper Palatinate town of Freystadt in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria . The ring wall is located 500 m south of Kleinberghausen and 700 to 1250 m southwest of Großberghausen on the Röschberg . The ring wall is registered as ground monument D-3-6834-0106 by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments . To the northeast of the ramparts, at the foot of the Röschberg, there is a prehistoric burial place with burial mounds (monument number D-3-6834-0247); Whether there is a connection with the ramparts has not been researched.

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The spur of the Röschberg extends to the northwest into the foreland of the Alb plateau and is only connected to the backland at a 40 m lower pass. The 25 hectares of its plateau are crossed by parts of a ring wall . In the northeast and southeast, two parts of the ramparts run along the edge of the steep slope.

The piece of rampart in the northeast begins at a ravine and encloses the north-facing tongue of the mountain in a rampart extending to the west; it starts out very powerful, then drops to 1 to 1.2 m on the inside and is six to eight meters on the outside. After a 3 m wide berm , it drops to 2 m. The 2–3 m wide ridge sinks sharply after 50 m and runs as an edge wall along the slope edge; the inside height is only about 0.5 m here and the natural steep face of the mountain is on the outside. The Wallende seems to turn into a ravine; an earlier entrance gate is indicated here. The opposite side of a gate cheek is destroyed by a ravine branching off to the Röschberg castle stable .

The wall in the southeast runs along the edge of the flatter slope over the pass, which forms the connection to the backland. Its southern end runs towards a ravine, although it cannot be decided whether there was a gate here either. The wall is 2 m high on the inside, its ridge width is up to 3 m. Outside there is no rampart, but the mountain slope. This wall is 100 to 150 m long.

The wall is addressed as prehistoric, but presumably did not encompass the entire plateau. The northeast wall gives the impression of a medieval complex in its eastern half, but without being in connection with the castle stables.

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  1. ↑ Röschberg in the BayernAtlas , accessed on May 4, 2020.