Ringwall Roßkopf
| Ringwall Roßkopf | ||
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 The transmitter mast in the middle of the ramparts |
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| Creation time : | probably Iron Age | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Wehrheim - Obernhain | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 15 '30 " N , 8 ° 31' 45" E | |
| Height: | 632 m above sea level NN | |
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The rampart Rosskopf is a Outbound hilltop castle at 632 m above sea level. NN at the height of the Taunus ridge on the Roßkopf , in the district of the Hessian Wehrheim - Obernhain , whereby the southern tip of the wall extends into the district of Bad Homburg . The complex, which is oval in shape and measures 600 meters long and up to 250 meters wide, is traversed by the Limes , which runs from Saalburg Castle to Heidenstock . The walls were probably made of masonry.
The ramparts are only faintly visible in the area today. Presumably it is of Iron Age origin. The Limes in this area consisted of an approx. 1.5 kilometer long stone wall with 5 stone towers, while the usual design in the Taunus was an earth wall with a ditch and wooden pallisade. Hence, it is believed that the wall was used as a quarry by the Romans.
The facility was first mentioned by Johann Philipp Dieffenbach in 1843, but was forgotten until the director of the Saalburg Museum Dietwulf Baatz rediscovered it in the 1980s. It was not known to the wall castle researchers Karl August von Cohausen and Christian Ludwig Thomas .
Today there is a transmission mast in the middle of the system, which is used by Deutsche Telekom , among others .
Monument protection
The area of the ramparts is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities. The same applies to the two natural monuments.
literature
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel et al. (Hrsg.): The prehistory of Hesse. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 489.
- Johann Philipp Dieffenbach: The ring walls. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. Vol. 4, 1843, ISSN 0066-636X , pp. 41-61.