Description

The Glauberg is primarily known for the outstanding importance of its Iron Age remains. However, it should not be forgotten that in the turmoil towards the end of the Hohenstaufen Empire, in the middle of the 13th century, castles were built on the plateau motivated by territorial and power politics, as well as an attempt to found a city. More recent excavations between 2016 and 2018 as well as the finding of a filter cistern presented here, which was mainly discovered in the 1970s, cast an impressive picture of this very eventful time for Glauberg. The filter cistern with the presumed protective structure or “well house” provides a highlight-like insight into the infrastructure of the facility, some of which was still under construction when the settlement was demolished. In the form of the extensive ceramic inventory recovered from the water extraction shaft, an almost complete non-ferrous metal kettle and the numerous (building) wooden finds, the findings also provided a complex of finds that was closely dated historically and dendrochronologically.

The article can be found here Find reports Hesse digitally.