Braak (Bosau)

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Braak is a village in the municipality of Bosau in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein with approx. 300 inhabitants and is located around four kilometers south of Eutin on the L184 . It is also the location of the Braak-Klenzau volunteer fire brigade . The Schwartau flows through Braak .

Wilhelm-Wisser- Kate in Braak

history

In 1948, in the Braaker Moor near Braak, a fire site on a peat hump was half destroyed by peat cutters. It probably dates from the older pre-Roman Iron Age . It was a 50–70 cm thick layer of fire, in which fist-sized annealed stones alternated with stone gravel interspersed with coal dust . Heavily decomposed pottery shards were stored in it. Two anthropomorphic wooden figures, a man and a woman, were found 50–70 m away and were dated to the same time using the 14 C method . Wooden tools were also found nearby. The place is interpreted as a place of sacrifice.

About 2500 years ago, the people living here created two stake idols for their cult activities . These stake idols are probably fertility symbols , so that it can be assumed that it was a place of sacrifice, especially for fertility rituals. The two figures, also known as the Braak pair of gods , 2.30 and 2.80 meters tall, are now in the State Archaeological Museum in Schleswig 's Gottorf Castle . The Aukamper Moor was probably a central place of sacrifice and the center of religious activities for a long time.

Furthermore, a large bowl stone was discovered in a wall in front of the Harms farm in Braak. It served as a goal post there before Rector Gustav Peters from Eutin found it. The surface of the stone is provided with hundreds of small depressions (bowls). The interpretation of these bowl stones from the Neolithic Age is difficult. Presumably they served as sacrificial stones. The stone has been in the zeiTTor museum in Neustadt in Holstein since April 1987 .

Braak cup stone

To the east of Braak, near the Braaker Mühle, the remains of a 13th-century castle can be seen. The ring moat has a diameter of about 30 meters, the tower hill is still 5 meters high.

Wittwieverbarg near Braak (Bosau), Neolithic burial mound

To the north of Braak is the Neolithic burial mound called " Wittwieverbarg ".

Economy and Infrastructure

Braak has been a recognized climatic health resort since 1987 . The Baltic Sea is approx. 10 km away.

Personalities

literature

  • Jan Bemmann , Güde Hahne: Ancient Iron Age sanctuaries in northern Europe according to the archaeological sources. In: Heinrich Beck (Hrsg.): Germanic religious history. Sources and source problems. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-11-012872-1 , ( supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 5), pp. 29–69.
  • Otto Rönnpag: The " Wittwieverbarg " between Eutin and Braak . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 1997, ISSN  1866-2730 , pp. 147–149.

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  1. ↑ Bemmann / Hahne p. 34 with information from the literature.
  2. ↑ Arthur Dähn: Ring walls and tower mounds. Medieval castles in Schleswig-Holstein. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2001, ISBN 3-88042-850-6 .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′  N , 10 ° 35 ′  E