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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Hünenburg bei Bomlitz Alternative Name: Walsuborg, Hünenburg bei Borg
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 1.758 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Walsrode / Bomlitz Nearest Village: Borg
Latitude: 52.880500N Longitude: 9.626460E
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

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4 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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**Hünenburg bei Bomlitz** submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : August 1, 2021 (Vote or comment on this photo)

This early medieval hillfort is located in the central Böhmetal, which is sunk around twenty meters deep into the undulating plateaus of the Fallingbosteler Heidmark (western Südheide) and has a winding, mostly narrow valley floor. The facility is located at the end of an elongated spur that rises directly from both estuaries of the Warnau and the Böhme.

The highest parts of it are around two meters higher than the terrain around. In the hilly Eibia-Lohheide recreation area further north the terrain rises by around twenty meters. It is traversed by the valley of the Bomlitz, which flows a few hundred meters further east. A little above, on the other bank of the Warnau, lies the clustered village of Borg, whose name refers to the 'Hünenburg'.

The wider northern part of the trapezoidal area begins with a first flat wall from bank to bank, which secured a bailey. In front of the main wall further south, a sharply cut ditch runs up from the Warnau and narrows the access to the eastern edge of the plateau above the Böhme. The main wall can be traced to the west over the slope on the other side of the warning further south; however, it has no connection with the southern part of the main wall, which is emerging as a wall. In the area of the remaining spaces, double palisade walls filled with earth once ran along the plateau edges above Warnau and Böhme and thus delimited the inner hillfort.

Until 1933, the few sources mostly linked to local legends about the hillfort, according to which this former 'Walsuborg', for example, was inhabited for a time by the founder of the Walsrode monastery, Count Wale von Askanien, and then demolished to obtain building material for the monastery founded around 986. At first, excavations were not considered to be very promising, as the only thing that could be seen in the ramparts was a refuge that was visited in times of war.

Only an excavation initiated by Hans Stuhlmacher and Oskar Wolff by archaeologists from the Hannover Provincial Museum in the summer of 1933 showed that there were fortifications in the manner of a simple aristocratic residence, and also brought to light artefacts from the Paleolithic up to the turn of the times and the remains of a settlement in the main hillfort with finds from the 9th to 11th centuries Century.

A subsequent excavation carried out around 2010 produced charcoal samples, which were transferred to the 7th – 9th centuries using the radiocarbon method. This makes the hillfort one of the earliest hillforts/castles in northern Germany.

Source (translated from): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hünenburg_(Bomlitz)
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