Viereckschanze Buchendorf

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The late Celtic Viereckschanze Buchendorf is located about 500 meters northeast of the Gautingen district of Buchendorf in the Starnberg district ( Upper Bavaria ) in open terrain. The ground monument is considered to be one of the best-preserved four-cornered hills in southern Germany.

Inside of the Viereckschanze

The Viereckschanze comes from the late Latène period , it was a cult site , the use of which is not known.

description

Sign at the Viereckschanze
Explanation board near the ski jump

The almost square earthwork with sides of 110 to 120 meters lies on a low, north-west facing spur. The delimiting, heavily sloping embankments with their raised corners are up to 2.6 meters high and largely undisturbed. The former outer moat seems to have been filled in in ancient times.

In the west, the wall is broken in the middle by the original gate opening. The whale incision in the southwest corner is younger. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists the ground monument as a square hill from the late La Tène period under monument number D-1-7934-0013.

To the north-west of the ski jump, the State Office for Monument Preservation lists some row graves from the early Middle Ages (monument number D-1-7934-0015). About 150 meters north-northeast of the complex there is a settlement of unknown time in the area (monument number D-1-7934-0022). Near the southwest corner of the ski jump runs the route of a road from the Roman Empire, which is now called Via Julia (monument number D-1-7934-0145).

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The Viereckschanze from afar.

literature

  • Gerhard Schober: District of Starnberg - ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments ( Monuments in Bavaria , Volume I.21). Munich, Zurich, 2nd edition, 1991. ISBN 3-7954-1005-3
  • Klaus Schwarz: Atlas of the late Celtic square redoubts in Bavaria - plans and maps . Munich, 1959
  • Klaus Schwarz: Atlas of the late Celtic square hills in Bavaria - text volume . Munich, 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-10336-0

Web links

Commons : Viereckschanze Buchendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: The architectural and ground monuments of the community of Gauting , accessed on August 19, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 38 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 35"  E