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Ringwall Holterhöfchen

Name: Ringwall Holterhöfchen
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Location: Hilden, Mettmann, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Kosmetik

July 9, 2022

Ground monument / ring wall Holterhöfchen: Early medieval protection and fortification.

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Carlo63

February 4, 2024

The Holterhöfchen is a ring wall complex with the remaining masonry of a formerly fortified courtyard in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Hilden (Mettmann district).

Gartenstrasse, which branches off from Walder Strasse just east of the hospital, leads to the facility. The Holterhöfchen is located in flat terrain at the transition from the Lower Rhine Terrace to the Lower Middle Terrace. For a good 130 years, researchers tried to interpret and date the complex, which is atypical for the Rhineland.

According to excavations and the dating of the ceramic shards found in 1887 by Constantin Koenen, the ring wall system was built in the 9th/10th century. Century adopted. The Holterhöfchen consisted of two ditches and two ramparts and had an inner diameter of 60 × 80 meters. In the past, a third, outer wall was assumed. In fact, this is just the old surface into which the outer ditch was sunk. In the north-west, a large part of the wall section is missing. Rafael von Uslar cites that between 1870 and 1878 a section of the embankment was removed to extract earth for filling a house.

Source and link to the full article:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holterh%C3%B6fchen

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