Weißenburg Line (Middle Franconia)

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The Weißenburger Line is a landwehr built in 1704 between the cities of Weißenburg in Bavaria and Treuchtlingen .

location

The line, an extensive ski jumping facility made up of 21 ski jumps , runs in the municipalities of Treuchtlingen and Weißenburg from the Altmühl near Bubenheim in an easterly direction over Graben and then slightly to the north on the left bank of the Swabian Rezat with seven ski jumps from Markhof to Stadelhof . Another ski jump in the form of a Sternschanze is isolated northeast of Dettenheim , it served together with another ski jump at the exit of the Kühlebach valley for flank protection. Another Sternschanze was located in Ludwigswald, southeast of Weißenburg, and two small jumps blocked the passage between the Wülzburg and the city of Weißenburg.

history

The line was built according to the course of the front in the War of the Spanish Succession at the beginning of 1704, in which the Franconian Empire was on the side of the Austrians, while the spa of Bavaria under Elector Max Emanuel on the French side. The French had occupied Mörnsheim , Pappenheim and Treuchtlingen at that time . After the First Battle of Höchstädt , the Nuremberg area was so endangered by the exposure of the southern section of the front that the generals of the Franconian Reichskreis saw the need to erect the barrier, which began on March 15, 1704, but which was completed through the exit the Second Battle of Höchstädt on August 13, 1704 was unnecessary.

conservation

The Sternschanze in the forest near Dettenheim is particularly well preserved. The redoubt measures around 60 meters diagonally. The other jumps that have been preserved or located in the aerial photo are square facilities with sides of around 22 meters. The jumps are designed to create a tenaille effect .

literature

  • Konrad Spindler: Weissenburg Line . In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Volume 15: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district - monuments and sites . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0504-3 , pp. 28-32.

Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '25.3 "  N , 10 ° 55' 6.4"  E