Schwedenschanze
In Central Europe , numerous prehistoric ramparts and section fortifications bear the misleading, mostly popular nickname Schwedenschanze .
history
This name originated in connection with the fighting of the Thirty Years War , when the population sometimes reactivated older fortifications as refuges or cattle hiding places; in this way one wanted to get to safety in Catholic areas from the Protestant troop contingents of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf . It is mostly speculative whether the individual weir systems actually served as shelter again during this emergency. Many of the often well-preserved earthworks in the forests of Europe were later only wrongly associated with the great religious war.
The history of the ground monuments often goes back several millennia. They were often expanded during the early Middle Ages , when the Hungarians threatened the East Franconian Empire and other regions in the 10th century ( Hungarian invasions ).
Also in the 17th century, i.e. during the Thirty Years War, numerous earth fortifications and entrenchments were built , which, however, differ significantly from older facilities due to their regular arrangement in geometric shapes (star entrenchments ). Occasionally, fortifications that were actually created by the imperial army , i.e. Catholic troops , were later referred to as "Schwedenschanzen"; for example the Schwedenschanze in the Rhön . The Schmölwall on the north side of the Flensburg Fjord is also only a tradition resulted with the later took place Second Northern War implicated in, fighting the Swede including against Denmark.
Schwedenschanzen
Denmark
- Schmölwall (also popularly called Schwedenschanze), near Broacker
Germany
- Landwehr (Asten area) near Altastenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Schwedenschanze (Belm) near Belm , Lower Saxony
- Schwedenwwall or Schwedenschanzen between Brandenburg an der Havel and Brielow
- Schwedenschanze in Buckow (Rietz-Neuendorf) , near Beeskow , Brandenburg
- Schwedenschanze (Burghaig) tower hill , Kulmbach district, Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Kulmbach) tower hill, Kulmbach district, Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Canstein) near Marsberg -Canstein in the Red Land, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Schwedenschanze (Deesbach) near Neuhaus am Rennweg in the Thuringian Forest
- Schwedenschanze (Delitzsch) on Neuhauser See , Saxony
- Schwedenschanze (Dornberg) near Bielefeld- Dornberg , North Rhine-Westphalia
- Schwedenschanze (Dörscheid) near Dörscheid , Rhineland-Palatinate
- Ringwall Schwedenschanze (Elfershausen) near Elfershausen in Lower Franconia, Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Elmshorn) in the Liether Forest in Elmshorn , Schleswig-Holstein
- Schwedenschanze (Frickingen) near Frickingen , Baden-Württemberg
- Schwedenschanze (Gersfeld) near Rodenbach in the Rhön near Reesberg, Hesse
- Schwedenschanze (Gotha) near Gotha in Thuringia
- Schwedenschanze in Dölauer Heide in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt
- Schwedenschanze (Haßberge) on the ridge of the Haßberge, Bavaria
- Ringwall Schwedenschanze (Heiligenstadt in Oberfranken) northwest of Heiligenstadt in Oberfranken , Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Hillesheim) Verbandsgemeinde Hillesheim , Rhineland-Palatinate
- Schwedenschanze (Höchstadt an der Aisch) in Höchstadt an der Aisch , Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Höhbeck) in the Elbtalaue Wendland nature park, Lower Saxony
- Schwedenschanze Isingerode near Isingerode , Lower Saxony
- Schwedenschanze (Jungingen) near Jungingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Schwedenschanze (Kelsterbach) in Kelsterbach, Hesse
- Schwedenschanze (Klein Hutbergen) near Verden (Aller), Lower Saxony
- Schwedenschanze (Lossow) near Frankfurt (Oder) , Brandenburg
- Schwedenschanze (Neppermin) in Neppermin on Usedom , see Neppermin Castle Wall , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Schwedenschanze (Neuenbürg) in the northern Black Forest
- Schwedenschanze (Nisselsbach) near Aichach, Bavaria
- Section fortification of Schwedenschanze (Oberlangheim) , Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Peenemünde) in Peenemünde on Usedom, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Schwedenschanze (Pohnsdorf) near Pohnsdorf , Schleswig-Holstein
- Ringwall Schwedenschanze (Kützberg) near Poppenhausen , Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Preußisch Oldendorf) near Preußisch Oldendorf- Börninghausen on the Egge, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Schwedenschanze (Rohrhardsberg) on the Rohrhardsberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Ringwall Schwedenschanze (Rottensteiner Forst) , Hofheim in Lower Franconia in the Haßberge district in Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (snakes) near Schlangen- Oesterholz , North Rhine-Westphalia
- Schanzenkopf (Schwedenschanze) near Alzenau, northwest of Mömbris, Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Stade) in the district of Groß Thun, Lower Saxony
- Schwedenschanze (Stralsund) near Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Schwedenschanze (Teublitz) in Teublitz, Bavaria
- Schwedenschanze (Vlotho) in Vlotho , North Rhine-Westphalia
- Schwedenschanze (Weitenhagen) in Weitenhagen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Schwedenschanze (refuge) in the northern Black Forest
Austria
in order of their position from west to east:
- Schwedenschanze (Lochau) in Lochau , Vorarlberg
- Schwedenschanze (Oberhaag) near Aigen-Schlägl , Upper Austria
- Schwedenschanze (Bad Leonfelden) near Bad Leonfelden , Upper Austria
- Schwedenschanze (Achatzberg) near Klam , Upper Austria
- Schwedenschanze (Engelstein) near Großschönau (Lower Austria)
- Schwedenschanze near Hartenstein Castle (Lower Austria)
- Schwedenschanze (Buschberg) in the Leiser Mountains , Lower Austria
Switzerland
- Schwedenschanze (Beggingen) on the Randen (mountain range) , Beggingen , Canton Schaffhausen