Can you visit the Höckelsburg like a castle?

No, it is the remains of a prehistoric fortified rampart, with no building left standing.

How old is the Höckelsburg?

The structure is believed to date from the early La Tène period, around 500 BC.

How do you get to the Höckelsburg?

On foot from a parking area on the B 252 near Herzhausen, via a forest track.

What remains to be seen at the site?

An earthen and stone rampart about forty metres long, which once blocked the northern approach.

Is the Höckelsburg the same as the Hünselburg?

No, they are two separate earthworks about 7.4 km apart that are often confused in the literature.

Höckelsburg

Herzhausen

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Where: Herzhausen

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Höckelsburg stands in Herzhausen (Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg), in Hesse, Germany. No visits are on record for this building.

The Höckelsburg is not a castle in the usual sense but the remains of a fortified earthwork on a wooded hilltop north of Herzhausen, in the Kellerwald. The structure is thought to date from the early La Tène period, around 500 BC, and to have been destroyed by the Chatti roughly a century before the Christian era. A surviving rampart of about forty metres, built of greywacke stone and timber, once blocked the approach from the north; parts of it were fused by fire during its destruction. Today the site is reached on foot through the forest, with no visitor facilities on location.

What to know

No standing structure remains, only an earthen and stone rampart within the forest.
Access is on foot from a parking area along the B 252, via an uphill forest track.
The site lies in the Kellerwald-Edersee nature park, about 1.5 km north-northwest of Herzhausen.
There are no opening hours or admission fees, as it is an open-air site freely accessible.
It should not be confused with the Hünselburg, another supposed Celtic earthwork about 7.4 km to the southeast.

Where this château is

Herzhausen · Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg · Hessen

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Herzhausen, Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg

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Can you visit the Höckelsburg like a castle?: No, it is the remains of a prehistoric fortified rampart, with no building left standing.
How old is the Höckelsburg?: The structure is believed to date from the early La Tène period, around 500 BC.
How do you get to the Höckelsburg?: On foot from a parking area on the B 252 near Herzhausen, via a forest track.
What remains to be seen at the site?: An earthen and stone rampart about forty metres long, which once blocked the northern approach.
Is the Höckelsburg the same as the Hünselburg?: No, they are two separate earthworks about 7.4 km apart that are often confused in the literature.