Ringwall Viersteinberg

Ringwall Viersteinberg
Creation time :	Prehistoric, renewed use probably during the early Middle Ages
Castle type :	Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, walls preserved
Standing position :	Early medieval complex probably belonging to the royal courts in Wettelsheim
Place:	Treuchtlingen - Wettelsheim - " Viersteinberg "
Geographical location	48 ° 58 '23.3 "  N , 10 ° 52' 51.1"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '23.3 "  N , 10 ° 52' 51.1"  E
Height:	600  m above sea level NN

As rampart Viersteinberg known plant is an Outbound prehistoric fortification in 600  m above sea level. NN Höhe on the Viersteinberg , which was presumably climbed again later during the early Middle Ages . Today's ring wall is about 820 meters away from the Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church in the Treuchtlingen district of Wettelsheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Bavaria , Germany . Today the ring wall of the object, which is protected as a ground monument, is still visible.

history

The finds discovered by Heinrich Eidam during excavations in 1928 , including a hoe made of deer antlers and a bronze bangle, were recorded in the period between the early La Tène period around 1200 BC. And the Hallstatt period around 500 BC Dated. Two burial mounds on the neighboring Patrichberg also belong to this period. At that time the ramparts probably served as a fortified settlement or as a fire sacrifice site.

In addition, Kurt Böhner suspects that the facility was not built until the early Middle Ages, or at least that it would be used again during this period. At that time it is said to have served to protect the royal court below in Wettelsheim.

description

The ring wall is located on the highest summit of the Viersteinberg, which drops steeply to the north over 150  meters to the already wide valley of the Altmühl . The facility has a roughly horseshoe-shaped surface and borders a limestone bank that rises on the northern slope of the Viersteinberg. The two Wallende still run about 50 meters wide and ten meters deep down the slope, whereby the western end was destroyed by a quarry. The entrance was in the middle of the south side and is accompanied outside by two flanking and several meters long pieces of rampart. When it was examined in 1928, the wall was nine meters wide at its base and 1.30 meters high. At that time it consisted of “ a pile of fairly large stones without any specific storage ”. Eidam suspected that the wall was held together by a wooden frame.

In the interior of the ring wall, " a lot of cooking holes where individual horizontal [stone] slabs were dug " were also found. And further: “The floor and the walls of the same were still completely black, the lighter recess filled with coal, animal bones and countless shards of vessels, but without small finds, so that one had the impression that there were no permanent apartments here, but only temporarily stayed was ".

Approximately in the middle of the rampart there is a rectangular depression that measured 2.50 by 2.30 meters and is 1.65 to 1.95 meters deep; it belonged to a living pit or a cellar.

literature

• Ingrid Burger-Segl, Walter E. Keller: Archaeological Hikes, Volume 3: Middle Altmühltal and Franconian Lake District . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1993, ISBN 3-924828-58-X , pp. 37-39.
• Konrad Spindler (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 14: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - Archeology and history . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0493-4 , pp. 208-210.

References and comments

1. ↑ The finds are now in the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Gunzenhausen
2. ↑ Konrad Spindler (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 14: Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen - Archeology and History , pp. 208 ff.
3. ↑ Konrad Spindler (edit.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 14: Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen - Archeology and History , pp. 208 ff.