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Celtic Ring Wall (Hunnenring) Otzenhausen

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Nonnweiler

Celtic Ring Wall (Hunnenring) Otzenhausen

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Location: Nonnweiler, St. Wendel, Saarland, Germany

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1. Nonnweiler Dam – Nonnweiler Reservoir loop from Türkismühle

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2. Nonnweiler Dam – Nonnweiler Reservoir loop from Thiergarten

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3. Windklang Observation Tower – Nonnweiler Reservoir loop from Otzenhausen

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Mark2000

April 20, 2018

The Celtic ring wall Otzenhausen is one of the most impressive Celtic fortifications in Europe. Built in the first century BC, ten-meter-high walls still testify to the monumental monument. Constant excavations, regular guided tours, workshops and archaeological seminars invite you to visit Otzenhausen.

Excerpt from keltenpark-otzenhausen.de

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Rumchr

July 15, 2021

the Celtic ring wall, also incorrectly referred to as the "Hunnenring", is located around the Dollberg near Otzenhausen. The north wall is still 40 m wide and 10 m high today

is about 2.5 km long. When it was built, it was twice as high, 20 m, which corresponds to a 5-storey house. Originally called "murus gallicus" (Gallic wall), as described by Julius Caesar, it consisted of a frame construction made of tree trunks held together with iron nails, which were then covered with earth, rubble and a frontal dry stone wall

When the wood rotted away, the wall then collapsed into a stone wall

the wall was a battlement with a picket fence. The facility was around 18.5 hectares in size. The interpretation

of the ring wall goes from a pure refuge over an "oppidum" (city-like settlement, up to

to a power and rule center of a powerful Celtic tribe, who by numerous

There is evidence of prince grave finds in the vicinity. The complex dates back to the 5th to 4th century BC. to apply

Its greatest expansion was in the 2nd to 1st century BC. The fortress probably went without a fight

taken over by the Romans and then abandoned.

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August 15, 2020

Part of the hunnenring

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Location: Nonnweiler, St. Wendel, Saarland, Germany

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Celtic Ring Wall (Hunnenring) Otzenhausen

1. Nonnweiler Dam – Nonnweiler Reservoir loop from Türkismühle

2. Nonnweiler Dam – Nonnweiler Reservoir loop from Thiergarten

3. Windklang Observation Tower – Nonnweiler Reservoir loop from Otzenhausen

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