Ring wall system Oberburghof
| Ring wall system Oberburghof | ||
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 Entrance to the Oberburghof ring wall |
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| Alternative name (s): | Borberg | |
| Creation time : | Early or High Middle Ages | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Moat, ramparts | |
| Place: | Hückeswagen - Oberburghof | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 6 ′ 55 " N , 7 ° 18 ′ 36" E | |
| Height: | 236 m above sea level NN | |
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The Oberburghof ring wall system is a ring wall system from the early or high Middle Ages near the village of Oberburghof in Hückeswagen .
The hilltop castle is located on a castle hill in the forest area of the Mul . The ring wall, also called Borberg , is 236 m above sea level. NN on a mountain tongue that drops off on three sides in Siefen . The rising terrain to the northeast is sealed off by three walls with ditches . Possibly, but not proven, a connection with the nearby ore smelting in the Mul area.
In 1970 30 m² were excavated. Ceramic shards prove that the facility was used in the 11th to 12th centuries. In an article in the home calendar from 1973, W. Janssen, A. Herrnbrodt and K. Grewe write about the development of the ring wall system: “So one can probably assume that the ring wall on the Burgberg near Oberburghof, like the Eifgenburg , was in the 11th century . It was built in the 16th century. ”The authors assume that the fragments date the construction of the complex, which by today's standards cannot be kept in this form. With the discovery of the broken pieces, only the use can be proven. It is still unclear when the system was built.
Views
Ringwallanlage Oberburghof Burggraben to the right of the entrance
Ringwallanlage Oberburghof Burggraben left of the entrance
Ringwallanlage Oberburghof View into the moat to the right of the entrance
Ring wall system Oberburghof, course of the moat
Ringwallanlage Oberburghof, view from the moat to the entrance
Ring wall system Oberburghof, access
3D model of the ring wall system
literature
- Hückeswagen 100 Years of the City , 1959.
- W. Janssen, A. Herrnbrodt, K. Grewe, Medieval weir systems in the Rhein-Wupper district , in: Land an Wupper und Rhein, Heimatkalender 19. Jg. 1973, pp. 111–113.
