Kleinberg ring wall
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 10.3 " N , 9 ° 52 ′ 31.8" E
The ring wall system Kleinberg is a small one-piece Iron Age wall system on the Kleinberg near Rasdorf in the district of Fulda in Hesse .
location
The small rampart is on the 522 meter high Kleinberg , one of the volcanic cone MOUNTAINS of Hessian bowling game , about two kilometers northwest of the town on Rasdorfer district and about a kilometer southeast of Großentaft in shallow Rhon area , geographically Osthessen lying to today's Region Northern Hesse belonging . In earlier times the area was the core area of the Buchonia .
Research history
Settlement finds in the region show that the landscape has been inhabited since the Neolithic at the latest .
The remains of the complex that are still visible can be classified according to reading finds in the Iron Age and thus as a Celtic ring wall .
The walls, mostly the only relics of the old fortified structures, were usually formerly free-standing wide walls , which , according to excavations , may have been constructed very differently. In all cases a vertical outer front can be expected, which was often supported by wooden fixtures. For a meaningful defense, a battlement was generally laid out on the wall behind the raised outer front . Additional protection was often provided by a dry trench in front of the wall , which in most cases also supplied the building material for the wall. The moat only became a fortification element of the ramparts from the late Iron Age ( Latène Age ).
investment
The small ramparts consist only of a simple stone wall that surrounds the summit of the Kleinberg in a large oval that ran about 140 meters (from southwest to northeast) by 80 meters (from southeast to northwest), i.e. was only about one hectare in size. Most of the time, the wall is only very weak and hardly recognizable in the landscape, only on the less steeply sloping south-west side is the former fortification line more clearly preserved. This is probably because the site as the attack site was stronger than the rest of the complex and has been better preserved to this day. The highest point of the Kleinberg is also on this south-western side. The wall is completely absent to the west and south-east. Archaeological investigations would only be able to prove whether there were possibly entrances to the ramparts . Such a gap can also be seen in the north of the plant.
The circular rampart is an example of a small, one-piece rampart from the past . A similar facility is located on Stallberg, just a few kilometers to the west . The facility can be hiked on the edge of the premium Kegelspiel path east of the 18.3 km long hiking path through the Hessian Kegelspiel if you accept a small detour.
It can be assumed that the ramparts have nothing to do with the Rasdorf fortress mentioned in 1361 .
Monument protection and remains
The ring wall is a ground monument within the meaning of the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.
literature
- Rolf Gensen: The Iron Age ring walls on the Stallberg and the Kleinberg. Guide sheet for the fortifications at Hünfeld-Kirchhasel and at Rasdorf in the Fulda district (1985) (= Archaeological Monuments in Hesse, issue 49), Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-89822-049-4 .
- Klaus Sippel ( State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse ), Ulrich Stiehl (retired forest director) Archeology in the forest: Recognizing and protecting ground monuments . Landesbetrieb Hessen-Forst, Kassel 2005, p. 17 (see www.hessen-forst.de ).
Web links
- Entry on Kleinberg: Wallburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Hochrhöner Extra Tour : Skittles on the website of rhoentourist.de
- Celts in the district of Fulda from the page Vere-keltenwelten.de
- Kleinberg, district of Fulda. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of February 6, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 1, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Bierl: Archeology Guide Germany: Bodendenkmäler und Museen , Wek-Verlag , 2006, ISBN 3-934145-09-4 . P. 443.
- ↑ a b Sippel, Stiehl: Archeology in the forest p. 17.
- ↑ Großentaft - a village on the "Alte Straße" , p. 22 on via-regia.org
- ^ Rolf Gensen: The Iron Age ring walls on the Stallberg and the Kleinberg.
- ↑ Extrator: Skittles (Premiumweg)
- ^ Heinrich Reimer: Historisches Ortlexikon für Kurhessen , Marburg 1926. S. 374