Burgberg (Baunatal)

View from the Großenritte to the castle hill

Castle Hill (also known as Castle ) is a 439.6 m above sea level. NN high, extinct volcano in the woods to hawk mountain country long associated mountains in northern Hesse ( Germany ). He joins just east of the with 556.7 m above sea. NN highest summit of the ridge, the Schwengeberg on.

Geographical location

The nearly continuous wooded castle hill rises on the eastern slopes of the Langeberg Mountains directly west of the village Großenritte, a western suburb of Baunatal. To the north of the summit there is a Wassertretstelle, at its southeastern slope extends a fairly large basalt quarry.

History

At the top of Castle Hill is a ring wall with about 2.5 hectares indoor area. The hillfort was colonized twice. First, before around 6000 years ago and then again at the time of the Hallstatt culture 800-400 BC channels especially steep rock walls the system had to be fixed more of a page.