Viereckschanze Bildechingen

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Wall on the south side
East side of the wall, seen from the outside

The Celtic Viereckschanze of Bildechingen is a Celtic fortification from the time between 300 BC. BC and 50 BC It can therefore be assigned to the La Tène Age within the Iron Age . The area of ​​the ski jump is a ground monument according to the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Act .

description

Celtic Viereckschanzen are rectangular, partly square ramparts with a surrounding ditch, the corners are usually a little raised. They served to protect a small Celtic settlement. Contrary to what was often assumed in the past, Viereckschanzen were not just places of worship. In some Viereckschanzen references to ritual acts were found (well-like pits with offerings), but they primarily served as a protected place to live and work. A large number of these traces of Celtic settlement can be found in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in particular .

location

It is located about two kilometers north of the center of Bildechingen, a suburb of Horb am Neckar , in the Freudenstadt district . The jump is at 510 m above sea level. NHN in a forest area that rises slightly to the north, about 100 m south of the Horb - Eutingen railway line.

Status

The wall on the south side is still best preserved. The height from the outer trench bottom to the ridge is usually 1 m to 1.5 m, from the ridge to the inner surface about 0.5 m. The wall is easy to see at a length of about 110 m, after which it disappears. The east side is well preserved for about 40 m, after which it is barely visible. The north side has completely disappeared, presumably it was where a forest path now runs. The west side can no longer be identified with certainty either.

literature

  • Werner Brenner: Celtic and Roman destinations in the country . Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8425-1176-7
  • Peter Krön: The Celts in Central Europe . Salzburg State Exhibition 1980 in the Celtic Museum Hallein, Austria, Office of the Salzburg State Government, Salzburg 1980
  • Günter Mansfeld: The Viereckschanze near Bildechingen . Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, Issue 13 (1983), pp. 95-99

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Lehmann: Teutates & Konsorten, Reise zu den Kelten in Südwestdeutschland. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-874-07693-7 , p. 119
  2. ↑ Gerhard Herm: The Celts. Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3 430 144531 , p. 246 ff.

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 39.6 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 24.8"  E