Altes Schloss (Drügendorf)
Description
The ringwork is situated on westward pointing hill spur that lies about 180 metres above the valley floor. The oval interior of the fortification, which measures 55 by 35 metres, is enclosed on all sides by a circular rampart. On the steeply falling western and northwestern sides it runs in the shape of an arc. On the eastern and southern sides it is constructed as a sector rampart with three sections. On the eastern side the rampart is still about two metres high and ten metres wide. Inside the circular rampart the remains of a dry stone wall have survived. In front of the gently ascending eastern side a moat was dug as an additional obstacle. The moat peters out at its northern and southern ends at the edges of the hilltop. The old access was on the southwest side of the site; here there is a gap in rampart a few metres wide.
References
- ^ for Eggolsheim at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historic Buildings and Monuments (pdf; 161 kB)
- ^ Location of the ringwork at Bayern Atlas
- ^ Source description: Björn-Uwe Abels: Führer zu archäologischen Denkmälern in Bayern, Franken Band 2: Archäologischer Führer Oberfranken, p. 127
Literature
- Rainer Hofmann (rev.): Führer zu archäologischen Denkmälern in Deutschland, Band 20: Fränkische Schweiz. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0586-8, pp. 153–154.
- Björn-Uwe Abels: Führer zu archäologischen Denkmälern in Bayern, Franken Band 2: Archäologischer Führer Oberfranken. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart, 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0373-3, pp. 127 and 128.
- Klaus Schwarz: Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Geländedenkmäler Oberfrankens. (Materialhefte zur bayerischen Vorgeschichte, Series B, Vol. 5). Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz, 1955, p. 73.