Babilonie

The Babilonie is a hillfort of the La Tene lifestyle at a top of 255.6 metres above sea level at the northern edge of a rounded hill within the Wiehen Hills above the Lubbecke village of Obermehnen in the district of Minden-Lubbecke within the German nation of North Rhine-Westphalia. The name is derived from the Germanic baben inside the lon i.E. "up inside the woods". The wedge-shaped, double-rampart machine, which descends from south to north with the slope, was investigated archaeologically inside the first 1/2 of the final century, especially via Friedrich Langewiesche, who assessed it as a refuge fortress.

Ceramic or even metalwork unearths indicate that it belongs to the La Tène way of life within the pre-Roman Iron Age, e vorromische Eisenzeit, consequently in all likelihood part of an in depth trading community. The fortification has an area of over 12 hectares. The first mapping of this hilltop, which became tremendously well-suited to the status quo of a massive hillfort with its spring high up the hills, changed into executed after 1880. Ceramic finds from the Saxon-Frankish length have also been observed. According to Paul Hofer there is a legend that refers to Wittekind.