Celtic Ring Wall (Hunnenring) Otzenhausen

Celtic ring wall from pre- and early Christian times. You have to want to ward off a real threat if you take on this enormous work!

Even today the following applies: be careful when crossing! Away from the Stone Stairs, you can quickly injure your bones.

Overwhelming and immediately amazed what kind of achievement it must have been to have built such a huge ring at the time it was made.
Great view from the top.
Perfect to expand the tour to include the Nonnweiler dam.

The ring wall of Otzenhausen is a mighty Celtic fortification on the slope of the Dollberg near Otzenhausen. Like other prehistoric or early historical fortifications, it was misleadingly referred to as the Hunnenring. However, archaeologists date its creation to the La Tène period (5th - 1st century BC). The term only came into being in modern times, when nothing was known about its origins; the building has nothing to do with the Asian tribe.

In the Celtic Park, at the foot of the Otzenhausen ring wall, a “real” Celtic village is currently being built, just as it might have looked 2,000 years ago within the huge fortress at the top of the Dollberg. The reconstruction of an authentic Celtic settlement is an essential part of the emerging Celtic park.

The Celtic ring wall is freely accessible and can be visited all year round.