Burgwall Island

Burgwall Island is an island within the Feisneck lake in the southeast a part of the town of Waren in the German district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. The name means "fort mound" or "motte". Burgwall Island lies in a small lake, which has a place of 1.94 km². Its call is derived from a fortress on the island, most effective remnants of which stay. It turned into a regular island citadel from the Slavic era. As reveals of pottery have proven, the web site become already settled in the course of the Old Slavic length of the seventh and eighth centuries and persisted to exist until the 12th century.

Finds of early German pottery indicated that the island endured to be used after Christianity were introduced within the Middle Ages. Whether the citadel nonetheless existed then isn't always regarded. The fort site lay in the territory of the Muritz tribe that, throughout the tenth century, periodically belonged to the Lutici federation. Today the remains of a rampart might also nonetheless be made out inside the southern a part of the wooded island. It seems like maximum of it changed into over excited in the preceding centuries.