Rimbeck earthworks

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The so-called earthworks of Rimbeck is a Neolithic facility near Rimbeck , town of Warburg , district of Höxter , in East Westphalia-Lippe , North Rhine-Westphalia . The Warburg-Rimbeck gallery grave lies within the earthworks.

background

The settlement landscape of East Westphalia shows a multitude of Neolithic earthworks , ditch systems and large stone graves . These include the Rimbeck earthworks, for example. The facility was examined in detail in the 1980s through excavations in the field and using scientific methods. Due to the considerable size of the earthwork, the facility is of scientific importance as an expression of the regional Neolithic settlement structure. The inner trench of the facility has the dimensions of 685 meters in length with a width of 7 meters and an average depth of 2.2 meters with a floor width of 1.5 meters. The complex was probably built from the Early to the Late Neolithic of the 3rd to 4th millennium BC. Used. There is a gallery grave within the complex so that the complex is addressed in a ritual context. Rimbeck's earthworks are assigned to the Wartberg culture .

The access path to the earthworks leads from the center of the village over the street “Zum Weißen Holz” to the wooded hill north of the village.

literature

  • Benedikt Knoche: The Neolithic earthworks of Rimbeck near Warburg, Höxter district. In: Antiquities Commission for Westphalia (ed.): Early castles in Westphalia 20. DruckVerlag Kettler, Münster 2003, ISSN  0939-4745 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ingo Pepper: A late Michel Mount compound in East Westphalia: The Gaulskopf at Warburg-Ossendorf. on jungsteinsite.uni-kiel.de, accessed on April 4, 2013 (section cultural allocation).

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 6.3 "  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 45.5"  E