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Heidenlöcher
Deidesheim, Germany, Germany
Heidenlöcher near Deidesheim in Germany's Palatinate Forest is a 9th-10th century Carolingian hilltop refuge castle on the Kirchberg summit, built by locals using corvée labor to shelter from Norman raids without ever seeing combat.
Enclosed by a 450-meter oval ringwall 3 meters thick with a wooden palisade, it housed 80-85 pit-houses in narrow alleys across 1.3 hectares, abandoned gradually as threats faded, earning its 18th-century name from sunken "heathen holes" mislinked to pagans.
Excavated in 1907-1908 and protected today, the stone foundations and depressions reward a scenic vineyard-to-forest hike 2.5 km northwest of town.
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67146 Deidesheim, Germany
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