Wallburg cone crack
| Wallburg cone crack | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Ehrenstetten Castle | |
| Creation time : | La Tène time | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, remains of a wall | |
| Place: | Ehrenkirchen -Ehrenstetten | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 53 '52.9 " N , 7 ° 47' 25.2" E | |
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The Wallburg cone crack , even castle Ehrenstetten called, is an Outbound hilltop castle on a ridge 2,600 meters southeast of the district Ehrenstetten the community Ehrenkirchen in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg .
The former fortification was a trapezoidal closed ring wall system of which parts of the wall are still preserved. Finds date back to the Latène period . The wall encloses an area of about 16ha. It is partly surrounded by a well-preserved moat. A wall was built in the wall using the wood-earth technique. In the front of the wall, mighty vertical posts were set in at regular intervals and connected with wooden beams and cross anchors. Behind this front, the wall was filled with earth and weathered gneiss debris. Archaeological investigations showed that there was a Celtic settlement of about 6 hectares in the complex. Numerous finds date it to the period between 150-80 BC.
literature
- State Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg and State Monuments Office Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Archaeological Monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 451 selected sights from Baden-Württemberg . Land survey office of Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-89021-717-6
- Dehn, Rolf: The fortification on the cone crack near Ehrenstetten in "Celts an Hoch- und Oberrhein", guide to archaeological monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Volume 24, State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart regional council, the archeology support group in Baden and the society for Vor and early history in Württemberg and Hohenzollern, pages 83–85
Web links
- Entry on cone crack in the private database "Alle Burgen".