Ring wall system Nack

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ringwall Nack
Remains of the earth wall

Remains of the earth wall

Alternative name (s): Ring wall on the neck
Creation time : Early middle ages
Castle type : Ring wall
Conservation status: Ground monument
Place: Idstein
Geographical location 50 ° 13 '59.1 "  N , 8 ° 14' 6.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '59.1 "  N , 8 ° 14' 6.6"  E
Height: 400  m above sea level NHN
Ring wall system Nack (Hesse)
Ring wall system Nack

The ring wall system Nack is a ring wall system that lies northwest of Idstein , between the districts of Wörsdorf and Niederauroff in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse .

Locals usually assume that this is a plant of Celtic origin. Experts have assigned the complex to the early Middle Ages due to its state of preservation and the type of construction . However, inspections by Sabine Schade-Lindig in 2019 yielded several (not yet documented) finds clearly of Celtic origin.

The facility should not be confused with Holdersberg Castle, which is in the same area about 1 km south .

location

The rampart is located on the northern spur of the 400 m high Nack hilltop , which is bounded in a semicircle in the west from south to north by valleys of the Auroffer Bach and the Kesselbach and sloping more gently into the Wörsbacher valley ( Idsteiner valley ) in the east is enclosed by the here north-south running A3 motorway . However, the mountain and ramparts are still at the eastern end of the eastern Aartaunus natural area . The Nack has porphyroid- bearing stratified rocks of the Spitznack layers (Unterems level) of the Kauber Zug , which are also known as Singhofen layers .

description

The plant has a length of around 450 m in the east-west direction and a width of around 180 m in the north-south direction. It is comparatively well preserved. The oval ring wall is best preserved with a ring wall and the present ditch on its southern front with a length of about 410 m. The 8 m wide wall rises at its strongest points to about 1.30 m above the inner surface or about 1.40 m above the bottom of the 7 m to 10 m wide trench. From the outside, the trench is just under 1.0 m deep.

The partially very well preserved ring wall in the relatively flat terrain of the flat mountain cone, across the spur, has an east-west extension of about 450 m length and 180 m width in north-south direction. Apart from modern path breakthroughs, no old entrance with gate flanks can be found, as would actually be typical for circular ramparts. At its western end there is a depression, in the western area there are terraces, in the northeast quarter the wall is more pronounced. Partly there is a second outer wall, only 0.3 m high, in front of the ditch. The east side only allows conclusions to be drawn about the barely existing ramparts, which are no longer visible or destroyed here by what are probably medieval arable terraces .

Historical classification

As is the case with Holdersberg Castle, the history of the Nack ring wall has not been explored. This is due to the fact that no excavations have been carried out to date and there are no mentions in historical documents. The pioneers of Nassau moat research, Karl August von Cohausen and Christian Ludwig Thomas , and later Ferdinand Kutsch , did not even mention the Nack ring wall, despite its comparatively good state of preservation. The fact is that the existence of the Nack ring wall was first made known in 1958 by W. Mankel from Wörsdorf.

On the basis of the systems, it is assumed that the Nack ring wall does not represent a settlement, but that it is probably a collective or refuge castle . On the basis of finds in the wider local area, experts assigned the facility to the Franconian era . More recent finds of Celtic ceramics that have yet to be deposited put the chronological classification into question again.

Monument protection

The area of ​​the ramparts is a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.

  • Parts of the ramparts

  • Parts of the ramparts

  • Remnants of masonry on the ramparts

literature

  • Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann : The ring wall on the Nack near Idstein-Wörsdorf, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis . In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Hrsg.): Archaeological monuments in Hesse . No. 35 , 1983.
  • Fritz Geisthardt: Idstein's story . In: Magistrat der Stadt Idstein (ed.): Idstein - history and present . 1987.

Web links

Commons : Ringwallanlage Nack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry by Reinhard Friedrich zu Nack, Ringwall in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11th Hesse ARCHAEOLOGY Day 2019 in Idstein: Sabine Schade-Lindig , Kai Mückenberger : "Archaeological Landscape Rheingau-Taunus, the Hintertaunus and the Idsteiner Land"
  2. ↑ The similar investment of about 15 km west lying Latène Alteburg Singhofen is certainly a coincidence.
  3. ^ Entry on Nack, Ringwall in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute