Heidenmauer In Wiesbaden
Heidenmauer is German for "heathen wall" and may refer to: * Heidenmauer (Palatinate) The ''Heidenmauer'' ("heathen wall") near the Palatinate (region), Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a circular rampart or ringwork, two and a half kilometres long, which was built by the Celts aro ..., a Celtic ringwork in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * '' The Heidenmauer'', a novel by James Fenimore Cooper {{Dab ...
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Heidenmauer (Palatinate)
The ''Heidenmauer'' ("heathen wall") near the Palatine county town of Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a circular rampart or ringwork, two and a half kilometres long, which was built by the Celts around 500 B. C. as a type of ''Murus Gallicus'' but was pulled down again not long afterwards. The wooden elements of the wall have disappeared over the course of time by rotting away, but the stones have survived. The ''Heidenmauer'' is a cultural monument according to the protected monument act of Rhineland-Palatinate. Geography Location The site lies one kilometre northwest of Bad Dürkheim, 170 metres above the town, and covers the 300-metre-high, domed summit of the hill and its southeastern hillside of the Kästenberg. The latter is a southern spur of the Teufelsstein, which is part of the Haardt, the eastern range of the Palatinate Forest facing the Upper Rhine Plain. South of the hillfort the little river of Isenach, a left tributary of the ...
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