Wallburg on the Luftenberg

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The prehistoric hill fort on the Luftenberg is a three thousand year old fortification in the form of a ring wall from the Bronze Age in the market town of Luftenberg on the Danube in the Perg district in Upper Austria .

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A Bronze Age depot was found on the summit of the Luftenberg in 1890. Its dating to the Urnfield period suggests that the ramparts , which are still clearly recognizable, were built during this time.

The hilltop is comprehensively reinforced by a plateau rampart. The ring wall had a palisade on the crown. The dating was underpinned by an undamaged bronze socket chisel that shows no signs of use and that is to be regarded as a construction sacrifice .

This assumption was confirmed by archaeological research by the Linz City Museum and the University of Vienna, which carried out an excavation campaign from 1999 to 2002 under the direction of Otto Helmut Urban . The outer and inner walls of this double fortification were examined:

The inner wall was a front wall made of rubble that had fallen over the outer edge. The attempt at reconstruction resulted in an original minimum height of this wall of two meters. The remains of a wooden construction were found in the embankment, which served to additionally stabilize the system. On the inside is an old position by a horizontal gravel committing horizon identified.

The results of the excavations were exhibited as part of the special archeology exhibition "Hügelland - Danube Belt" in 2004 in the Nordico City Museum in Linz .

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  1. ↑ Research and teaching excavation under the direction of Otto H. Urban in Luftenberg 1999 to 2002.
  2. ↑ a b Otto Helmut Urban: Luftenburg near Linz: Late Bronze Age hill fort. In: Science ORF.at. 2004, accessed April 27, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 45.8 "  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 35.7"  E