Sierhauser Schanzen
The Sierhauser Schanzen (also called Sierhauser Schanzen or Römerschanzen ) are located in the urban area of Damme in the Lower Saxony district of Vechta on the road from the Damme town center to the Damme district of Sierhausen. The jumps consist of the remains of three smaller fortifications, the Große Schanze ( 52 ° 29 ′ 18.6 ″ N , 8 ° 11 ′ 34.8 ″ E ) in the south, the Small Schanze ( 52 ° 29 ′ 25.4 ″ N , 8 ° 11 ′ 42.4 ″ E ) in the north and the remnants of a wall and ditch system in front of it. They have an area of approximately 100 m × 100 m each. The exact date of the jumps is controversial.
The Sierhauser Schanzen are at the end of a headland that pushes from the Osterberg, a southern branch of the Dammer Mountains , in the direction of the Great Moor . Towards the end of the 19th century, Franz Böcker from Dammer suggested that they were built by the Romans. This explains their alias name. However, this theory could not be confirmed by excavations. The last complete survey of the Sierhauser Schanzen was made by the archaeologists Carl Schuchhardt and Bernhard Uhl in 1906.
In 1908, Uhl classified the entrenchments as "belonging to the large group of ramparts ", "which go back to the Saxons , were built by them either as fortresses occasionally for the conquest of northwest Germany , or as protective castles against the advance of the Franks ". Uhl sees the Sierhauser Schanzen as an "advanced fort of the Arkeburg [...], built only at a time when the main castle was threatened."
Web links
- Entry by Frank Both on Sierhauser Schanzen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jade University: main survey exercise Sierhausen, city of Damme ( memorial from December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). 2004 (archive.org, December 30, 2014).
- ↑ Damme Heimat- und Beautification Association: The Prehistory of Dammer: From the plank paths to Dersaburg
- ^ Bernhard Uhl: Arkeburg and Sierhäuser Schanzen, two old fortifications of the Münsterland . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg , vol. 16. 1908. p. 328
- ^ Bernhard Uhl: Arkeburg and Sierhäuser Schanzen, two old fortifications of the Münsterland . In: Yearbook for the history of the Duchy of Oldenburg , Vol. 16. 1908. P. 346
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