Rauher Kulm ramparts
The ramparts on the Rauhen Kulm are fortifications at the foot of the Rauhen Kulm .
The Rauhe Kulm as a basalt mountain in the otherwise flat area was already visited by people in prehistoric times. The rampart made of basalt blocks extends around the foot of the mountain. Finds point to the Bronze Age , the Celts , the Carolingian period and the Slavic settlement chambers . During the time of the Hungarian invasions , fighting took place.
Even if the wall is disturbed by later interventions, including the creation of an English garden over the entire mountain or the extraction of the basalt in quarries , the course can be recognized by the basalt lumps. There is a lower main wall with at least two gate areas and another fortified area in the middle. However, the hilltop castle is classified as largely late medieval. Several tumuli are also known. It is believed that the settlement was within the protective wall, so it was not a mere refuge . The mostly stone remains were u. a. reinforced by wooden structures. There are references to post slotted walls , fence-shaped wall courses and additionally secured gate areas.
The cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein made a drawing of the Rauhen Kulm and recorded both the ramparts and the hilltop castle.
The ramparts were researched at the beginning of the 20th century by Adalbert Neischl on behalf of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg and Hugo Obermaier , who completed Neischl's work. For over ten years, Hans Losert has been carrying out excavations and taking care of the scientific processing.
literature
- Adalbert Neischl : The prehistoric and early historical fortifications on the Rauhen Kulm near Neustadt a. Kulm (Upper Palatinate) . Dultz 1913. 34 pp.
Web links
- Excavations on the Rauhen Kulm at Landschaftsmuseum.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Vollet, Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein. The drawings from the collections of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Obermain Landscape Museum on the Plassenburg ob Kulmbach from March 25 to April 24, 1987), Kulmbach 1987.