Ringwall Rittershausen

Ringwall Rittershausen
Alternative name (s):	Castle
Creation time :	from 450 BC Early Tene time
Castle type :	Fortification
Conservation status:	Castle stable, moat and wall remains
Standing position :	Celts
Place:	Rittershausen (Dietzhölztal)
Geographical location	50 ° 51 '2.5 "  N , 8 ° 16' 42.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '2.5 "  N , 8 ° 16' 42.7"  E
Height:	516  m above sea level NHN

The ring wall Rittershausen , also simply called the castle , is an abandoned ring wall system on the heights of the Hohen Lay (516 m) near Rittershausen (Dietzhölztal) in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse . It dates from the La Tène period and was used between 450 and 300 BC. Settled.

The hilltop castle was probably built in the early La Tène period (from 450 BC). From 1911 to 1913, during excavations by Pastor Karl Nebe and Kommerzienrat Gustav Jung under the direction of the State Museum in Wiesbaden, extensive finds of iron weapons and implements as well as ceramics and jewelry were found. According to previous knowledge, the castle was built in the 3rd century BC. Destroyed and not rebuilt afterwards. It could also have been a fortification of Celtic nobility .

literature

• Architectural monuments in Hessen. Lahn-Dill-Kreis I, pp. 48-51.
• Eckehart Schubert: The castle near Rittershausen: Guide sheet to the Celtic ring wall near Dietzhölztal-Rittershausen, Lahn-Dill-Kreis Archaeological Monuments in Hesse 67 (1987), ISBN 3-89822-067-2 , p. 11.
• Frank Verse: The "castle" near Dietzhölztal-Rittershausen. In: Bernhard Pinsker (Ed.): Eisenland - to the roots of the Nassau iron industry . Wiesbaden 1995, pp. 99-122.

Web links

• The “Burg” rampart from the springtime Lahn-Dill district near Dietzhölzetal-Rittershausen
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Individual evidence

1. ^ Rittershausen, Lahn-Dill district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of March 27, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).