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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world
Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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A lot of it was reconstructed using material found at the site in the 1930s/40s. Before that it was never fully forgotten but it was mostly buried and had houses built on top of it.
1941:
1957:
Here is a section of a map from 1823, it shows the buildings built on top of that, note the circular shape:
Same map browsable here, change the opacity on the top right to see current aerial photo.
According to some legends it was used as a fort in the middle ages, bu afaik no archeological remains support this.
Another map from 1878, with more details, it shows the contours of the buildings:
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