Ringwall Castle Hill

Ringwall Castle Hill
Creation time :	Early medieval
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Disappeared, ring wall and ring moat received
Place:	Schöllnach - Neuhofen - "Castle Hill"
Geographical location	48 ° 46 '0 "  N , 13 ° 8' 18"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '0 "  N , 13 ° 8' 18"  E
Height:	381  m above sea level NN

The ring wall castle hill is an abandoned early medieval fortification on the castle hill in the Bavarian Forest , in the gusset above the valleys of two tributaries of the Talbach . It is located immediately northwest of Neuhofen or around 3160 meters west-northwest of the Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist in Schöllnach in the Lower Bavarian district of Deggendorf in Bavaria , Germany .

No historical or archaeological information is known about this hill fort ; it is roughly dated to the early medieval period. Only a ring moat and a ring wall are preserved from the complex, the site is protected as a ground monument number D-2-7244-0114: Ring wall of the early Middle Ages .

description

The ring wall is located directly on the municipal boundary to Hengersberg at 381  m above sea level. NN height on the top of the gently rising castle hill, which is also known as the castle hill. This hill is bordered and protected on its west, north and south side by the valleys of two small streams, only to the east-north-east is a level access possible at a saddle , whereupon the area in front rises a few meters to the highest point of the terrain. The difference in altitude between the hilltop and the stream valleys is a maximum of 40  meters .

The fortified area on the hilltop is surrounded by an almost circular ring wall with a diameter of 55 meters. The wall with a rounded crown rises another 1.2 meters with a moderate slope over the inner surface of the facility. A ring trench with a diameter of 80 meters is placed in front of this wall as additional protection . The jump cave, i.e. the difference in height between the top of the wall and the bottom of the trench, is four to five meters, the outer edge of the trench to the fore area only rises 0.5 to 1.3 meters. The curved inner surface of the fortification drops evenly from its center by 1.5 to 2 meters to the inner wall edge.

Today two access routes lead into the facility. While the one in the south-western part, which stretches diagonally through the ring wall, was probably built recently, the one in the east is probably the earlier access to the fortification. Here the ring wall is interrupted, the northern wall end is apparently offset slightly inward compared to the southern one. A newer logging path leads over an earth bridge over the ditch and then through this interruption inwards. Eight meters to the east of the ring ditch edge is a funnel pit with a diameter of five meters, whether and to what extent it belongs to the early medieval complex is not known.

The facility is still very well preserved, the only faults are on the north-western ring wall, where it is damaged by burrows over a length of 17 meters . The bottom of the trench was probably cleared in the 1980s.

literature

• Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical area monuments of Lower Bavaria . (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 2). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1983, ISBN 3-7847-5090-7 , p. 76.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ List of monuments for Schöllnach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 133 kB)
3. ↑ Location of the ring wall in the Bavarian Monument Atlas
4. ↑ Source description: Johannes Pätzold: The prehistoric and early historical terrain monuments of Lower Bavaria , p. 76