Ancient site · Germany · Partial ruin
Danevirke
Danewerk
The Danevirke is a long system of medieval Danish fortifications across the Schleswig-Holstein land bridge, made of successive earth ramparts, ditches and fortified sections. Built and rebuilt from the early Iron Age through the High Middle Ages, its components include broad sod banks, palisade fronts, and a later brick masonry curtain (Waldemarsmauer). Much of the line survives as earthen banks and archaeological exposures.
First raised
AD 600
Its prime
1170
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1170
What Danevirke looked like in its prime.
A continuous linear silhouette of broad grass-covered earth ramparts and V-shaped moats stretches across low farmland and marshes; most banks are wide, 15–20 m across and 3–6 m high, with turf surfaces and occasional rows of exposed oak posts. In reinforced sections a battered red-brick curtain wall on a granite base with buttresses and tiled fragments breaks the earthen line. Reeded wetlands and a narrow estuary interrupt the banks, and eroded stretches show stratified fieldstone cores.
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