Old warehouse (Menzlin)
The area natural monument Altes Lager is located about 1.5 km south of the town of Menzlin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Finds show that there, in the settlement area of the Slavic Lutizen , was a Viking Age trading post, the original name of which is unknown.
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In the 9th century there was an approximately 18 hectare settlement on a sand dome near the banks of the Peene . During the excavations between 1965 and 1969, the remains of a wooden bridge were found and a burial ground was excavated. Scandinavian grave goods and imports from Ireland and the Baltic States , among others, were found in the graves . The burial in eight ship-shaped stone settings , 12 stone circles , 33 cremation graves and a Ustrine (cremation place) corresponds to contemporary Scandinavian customs. Judging by the graves of women, they were graves. The men's graves are either uncharacteristically furnished or have not yet been discovered.
Dendrochronologically , most of the Menzlin finds date from the early and middle 9th centuries. The settlement is one of the trading centers of the 9th and 10th centuries in the Baltic Sea region, as existed in Birka (Sweden), Kaupang (Norway), Haithabu , Wollin and Truso , among others . The location enabled trade with Scandinavia and the Slavic hinterland. A large number of pearls made of amethyst , rock crystal , glass , carnelian and slate , i.e. materials that do not occur locally, were found.
Adam von Bremen reports in his Hamburg Church Chronicle, written around 1075, of a "land route from the mouth of the Elbe to Wollin or Stettin ". It took seven days in the 11th century to travel on this Via Regia , which Menzlin must have touched.
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The old name of the square is unknown, which gives rise to speculation. The equation with the legendary Vineta or the Jomsburg is also under discussion here. It has not yet been clarified whether Jomsborg is identical with Arkona , Ralswiek , Menzlin, Wollin or another, as yet unknown settlement.
The name "Old Camp" is the field name of the burial ground and probably goes back to the time when the Great Elector had his army camp near Menzlin during the siege of Anklam in 1676 . The place of the early medieval settlement bears the field name "Peeneberg".
See also
literature
- Joachim Herrmann (Hrsg.): Archeology in the German Democratic Republic. Monuments and finds . 2 volumes. Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0531-0 .
- Horst Keiling : Menzlin, early urban center of the Slavs with a branch of Scandinavian traders . In: Horst Keiling: Archaeological Open Air Museum Groß Raden . 2nd expanded edition. Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1989, ( Archaeological finds and monuments from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - Museum catalog 7), pp. 81–87.
- Lutz Mohr : The Viking dead stone ships north of the Peene near Menzlin not far from Anklam in East Western Pomerania and their time. In: Stone Cross Research. Series B: Collective volumes 24 = NF 9, 1997, ZDB -ID 146124-2 , pp. 59-67.
- Ulrich Schoknecht: Menzlin. A prehistoric trading center on the Peene . Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1977, ( articles on the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg 10, ISSN 0138-4279 ).
- Kati and Norbert Warmbier: The old warehouse - off the beaten path. Viking graves and steppe plants on an inland dune . In: Heimatkalender ANKLAM und Umgebung 2010. Year 81, New Series 19. Schibri-Verlag 2009, pp. 31–35 ISBN 978-3-86863-032-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Old Camp" near Menzlin ( Memento from May 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Literature about the old camp (Menzlin) in the state bibliography MV
- Lutz Mohr: Vikings from Menzlin .
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ' N , 13 ° 38' E