Circular rampart

A ring wall is an annular wall facility which has been built to defend as a field attachment or Wallburg, for religious reasons, and perhaps also as a meeting place.

The time of origin of these systems extends from the Neolithic (New Stone Age ), right up to the Middle Ages.

Construction

The characteristic of a ring wall is the wall as fortifikatorisches main element. It can be constructed in various ways, as a simple embankment, as wood and earth structure to a wall. Former wood and earth walls, but also those made ​​of stone are often uncovered only as the supposed mound today in the field. Most had a ring wall an upstream trench; Wall can be supplemented by a palisade. Often several concentric circular walls were built by the builders, creating a more effective defense against attackers was possible. Upstream investments of a ring wall represent ring section walls and ramparts section, such as on a mountain spur.

Discovery

Many ringwalls were discovered in the Swiss and Austrian Alpine foothills down, often in the woods and frequently by aerial photography ( aerial photos for the flat sun). Profiles of the facilities and the excavation of the inner surface allow analysis of the temporal development of fortification, ceramics and food supply of old.

Temporal classification

In the 19th and even the 20th century circular walls were often classified collectively as prehistoric by archaeologists. Some dating is as prehistoric or medieval difficult if no datable finds exist solely from the shape of the plant. Often, such systems were also now recognized as a medieval castle sites. In topographic maps but they are mostly still entered as "Ring Wall".

Known ringwalls

• Ring Wall of Otzenhausen
• Heidenmauer in Bad Durkheim
• Heiligenberg in Heidelberg
• Tinnumburg on Sylt
• Lembecksburg auf Foehr
• Slavonic ring barrier facility in Oldenburg in Holstein
• Pöppendorfer hillfort near Lübeck
• Ring Wall of Large - Raden in Mecklenburg
• Ringwallanlage Schwalenburg in Willingen ( Upland) Schwalefeld
• Ringwalls in Reitlingstal Elm ( Krimmel and Brunkelburg )
• Ring Wall Altkönig in Vordertaunus
• Ring Wall Chapel Hill in Hofheim am Taunus
• Grotenburg in the Teutoburg Forest
• Ring on the Wall Tönsberg at Oerlinghausen
• Hünenburg Bielefeld
• Dünsberg at casting
• " Rödchensmauer " on the spine Castle ( oppidum )
• Saxony Wall on the Marienberg in Nordstemmen
• Thunder Mountain in the Pfalz
• Ring Wall Heiligenberg in Bruchhausen- Vilsen
• Hillfort in Eurasburger Forestry
• Mettermich
• Eiringsburg in Bad Kissingen
• Hillfort in Bürgstadt
• So-called " Jews hill " at Kleinbardorf in Lower Franconia