Heunischenburg
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The Heunischenburg is a stone fortification of the late Urnfield period near the Upper Franconian town of Kronach in Germany. Its heyday was in the 9th century BC, making it the oldest stone fortifica
The Heunischenburg near Gehülz (Kronach)
Front view of the Heunischenburg
The Heunischenburg with a view through the gateway looking east
View from above the reconstructed wall
Mitwitz
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Mitwitz is a municipality in the district of Kronach in Bavaria in Germany. It lies on the Steinach river and the Föritz, on the edge of the Franconian Forest on the route between Kronach and Coburg.
Heunischenburg
…investigated. The fort is located on a 486-metre-high hill spur of the Wolfsberg, between the Kronach quarter of Gehülz and the village of Burgstall (Mitwitz). The fort probably guarded a copper and tin trading route in the Fichtel Mountains. While a mighty, 110-metre-long rampart protected the vulnerable…
Oberes Schloss (1713)