Spandau castle wall
The Spandau castle wall refers to the archaeological site of a former Slavic castle wall in today's Spandau ( Berlin ).
history
It is the remains of a rampart and the first Slavic settlement with a castle. The first traces of settlement go back to the 8th century. At that time, the Slavs settled on a small island in the Havel , around two kilometers south of today's old town Spandau . The settlement was fortified early on. High-quality finds, but also an elaborately fortified part of the settlement show that a Heveller prince resided here. The settlement soon spread to the nearby bank, to which a wooden bridge led to the island. The Slavs made pasture and hay in the fields around the Bullengraben , which led into the moat.
The place has been destroyed several times or burned down for other reasons, but has been rebuilt over and over again. All buildings were made of wood. The settlement was abandoned in the 12th century. During this time, the population moved to the nearby and newly founded Spandau. An associated cemetery was excavated next to the settlement. The moat that surrounded the island in the west was filled in in the middle of the 19th century with the construction of the Berlin-Hamburg railway in the northern part, so that the island was connected to the land. The street Spandauer Burgwall on the remaining and partly built-up peninsula is reminiscent of the former Slavic settlement center.
During excavations in 1982, the mold of the Spandau Cross was found next to a hall church built from wood around 980 . Later, the archaeologists also found a gold thebal ring .
literature
- Adriaan von Müller and Klara von Müller-Muci: New research results from the Burgwall in Berlin-Spandau . Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88609-407-3 (= Berlin contributions to prehistory and early history, NF, volume 9, archaeological-historical research in Spandau, volume 5)
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- City history of Spandau
- Press box: Suspected craftsmen's settlement on the Spandau castle wall is excavated
- Klaus Goldmann : Already ancient state expansion in the Berlin area? On: stadtmuseum.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '35.4 " N , 13 ° 11' 59.6" E