Ringwall Wolkensberg

Ringwall Wolkensberg
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Creation time :	Prehistory and early history
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Ring wall with an intermediate wall and a front bailey
Place:	Velburg - Mantlach
Geographical location	49 ° 13 '4.9 "  N , 11 ° 37' 49.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '4.9 "  N , 11 ° 37' 49.1"  E

The ring wall Wolkensberg is a prehistoric to early historical ring wall near the district Mantlach of the Upper Palatinate city ​​of Velburg in the district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria . The ring wall is located about 950 m east of Mantlach in a private forest on the Wolkensberg.

description

The top of the Wolkensberg rises 100 m above the valley floor on the western bank of the Schwarzen Laber . The mountain falls steeply on all sides and partly into rocks, with the exception of the accessible south-west side. The hilltop, which slopes from a rock head in the north to the south, is surrounded by a ring wall with a circumference of 300 m. The ring wall is approximately trapezoidal with a tubular extension to the north to the rock head. On the southeast side there is a 3 m wide gap, the former gate to the facility. The inner area is 80 × 50 m and is divided into a larger lower and a smaller upper castle by an intermediate wall. The stone walls are partly flattened and partly only 0.5 m high, but consistently 6 m wide. Part of the wall fell over the steep slope. The northern foreland consists of a lower and relatively flat terrace; this seems to have been connected to the ring system by a largely flattened wall, which is still visible as a step in the area.

history

The complex is classified as prehistoric and prehistoric. Prehistoric reading finds are in the archaeological museum of Amberg . Other ceramics found from the Bronze Age are in the Regensburg Historical Museum .

literature

• Sixtus Lampl : Monuments in Bavaria - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments: Volume III. Upper Palatinate. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Munich 1985.
• Armin Stroh : The prehistoric and early historical monuments of the Upper Palatinate. (Material booklets on Bavarian prehistory, series B, volume 3). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1975, ISBN 3-7847-5030-3 , p. 189.

Web links

• Entry on Wallburg Wolkensberg near Mantlach in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Fischer with the participation of Erika Riedmeier - Fischer: Archäologische Ausgrabungen und Funde in der Oberpfalz 1983 , accessed on April 25, 2020.