Ringwall Wirtheim
| Ringwall Wirtheim | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Alteburg, Wirtheimer Kringel | |
| Creation time : | early medieval | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, Wallburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Biebergemünd - Wirtheim | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 13 '13.9 " N , 9 ° 16' 23.8" E | |
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The Wirtheim ring wall , also known as Alteburg or Wirtheimer Kringel , is an abandoned early medieval ring wall on a hill between the streams of the Bieber and the Hirschbach 700 meters southeast of Wirtheim , a district of the municipality of Biebergemünd in the Main-Kinzig district in Hesse .
Location and description
The rampart is located at the intersection of the Via Regia , which follows the Kinzig valley coming from the Rhine-Main area and runs towards Central Germany , and a branch " Birkenhainer Straße " that crosses the Spessart and comes out of the Biebergrund and ends here Continues northwest over the Vogelsberg towards Wetterau and Central Hesse . The facility is located on a mountain spur running from southwest to northeast above and east of Wirtheim and is an approximately 80-meter circular ring wall with a gate system that can be detected in the 3D data of the airborne laser scan (ALS) . The facility itself, which is located on the western slope of the mountain spur, has a height difference of about ten meters and is in the highest part another ten meters below the actual height of the spur, so it was not very suitable for defense.
From May 5 to July 9, 2014, archaeological investigations were carried out at the castle site of the impressively large fortification by the Archaeological Spessart Project , which suggests the formation of the ring wall in the Franconian or Carolingian times (time horizon: 8th to 10th century ). According to its location, it served as a simple section fortification to protect the Via Regia between Frankfurt and Fulda and was a symbol of the power of local rule.
Findings of 13 microliths , small flint flakes, indicate a brief settlement in the Stone Age ( Wirtheimer group ; timing: around 8000 B.C.E. ). A few other finds are assigned to the early Middle Ages . Late medieval finds without any direct link make an agricultural use in the late Middle Ages appear possible thanks to the topology of several terraces .
A partial reconstruction of the ring wall gate was planned for spring 2015 .
Web links
- Entry on Wallburg Wirtheim in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Wirtheim, Main-Kinzig district. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 26, 2014 .
- The ring wall near Wirtheim: questions about questions , websites of the Archaeological Spessart Project (ASP)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 8th ASP Symposium on Castle Research in the Spessart 2015 in Biebergemünd, lecture by H. Rosmanitz
- ↑ The diameter varies between 75 and 90 meters.
- ^ The ring wall excavations. An earthwork in a strategically favorable position , website www.spessartprojekt.de of the ASP, accessed on October 26, 2016
- ↑ The ring wall near Wirtheim ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the spessartprojekt.de page
