Eulau (Naumburg)

Eulau City of Naumburg (Saale) Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 16 ″ E
Height :	107 m
Residents :	495 (Dec. 31, 2003)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1994
Postal code :	06618
Area code :	03445
	Location of Eulau in Naumburg (Saale)

Eulau is a district of the city of Naumburg (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt .

Saale floodplain with Eulau in the background

location

Eulau is located northeast of the city of Naumburg, north of the Naumburg- Halle - Leipzig railway line and southeast of Landesstraße 205 in the Saaleniederung west of the Saale. Beyond the Saale lies the town of Schönburg and its castle ruins of the same name.

history

In a register of the tithe of the Hersfeld monastery , which was created between 881 and 899, Eulau is mentioned for the first time in a document as the place Ilauua im Friesenfeld has to pay for. Later the place belonged to the manor Goseck in the Electoral Saxon office of Freyburg . By the resolutions of the Vienna Congress Eulau 1815 came to Prussia and in 1816 the district Querfurt in the administrative district of Merseburg of the Province of Saxony assigned to which he belonged until 1944th

Neolithic family graves from Eulau

Family graves in the State Museum of Prehistory

The so-called family graves of Eulau were discovered in July 2005 near the town of Eulau in a gravel pit. They are part of an approx. 4400 year old grave field with a total of twelve graves of the Neolithic ceramic cord culture. Numerous graves from other Neolithic cultures have been found in the same place. Specialist attention was drawn to four of the graves, as several people (13 in total) were buried in each of them, who presumably all died of violent deaths. The position of the skeletons suggested closer, possibly family relationships between the buried, which was confirmed by investigations of old DNA residues for some of the dead.

In addition, based could of strontium isotope analyzes are determined that the women of the community buried came obviously from a different area, men and children, however, were probably of local origin. A patrilocal marriage pattern is therefore likely, but, as with many other Stone Age cultures, can currently only be assumed.

The multiple burials in Eulau are characterized by a large number of injuries, some of which were fatal. The battered skull and an arrowhead that was still stuck in a vertebra, as well as the verifiable simultaneous burial of the dead, suggest a violent event in which all 13 individuals died. The laying down of the dead in turn indicates that not everyone in the settlement fell victim to the event, but that the survivors, who took care of the ritual burial , knew about the relatives of those buried.

Three of the corded ceramic multiple burials in Eulau can be seen in the current permanent exhibition in the State Museum of Prehistory (Halle) .

The cemetery is only two kilometers from the Stone Age solar observatory in Goseck and about 23 kilometers from the site where the 3,600 year old Nebra Sky Disc was found .

Mansion and church

Half-timbered building at the cemetery

Attractions

Church from 1694, the previous building burned down
(unrenovated) manor house of the manor
Vineyard with tower
Half-timbered buildings

literature

Arnold Muhl, Harald Meller , Klaus Heckenhahn: Tatort Eulau - A 4500 year old crime is solved , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2010 ISBN 978-3-8062-2401-6

politics

The district mayor is Angelika Brendel.

Individual evidence

^ Reg. Thur. No. 287
^ Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34f.
↑ Places of the Prussian district of Querfurt in the municipality register 1900
↑ 3sat.online - Violence in the Stone Age - The Secret of Eulau (September 8, 2005)
↑ Christian Meyer, Guido Brandt, Wolfgang Haak, Robert A. Ganslmeier, Harald Meller, Kurt W. Alt: The Eulau eulogy: Bioarchaeological interpretation of lethal violence in Corded Ware multiple burials from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany . In: Journal of Anthropological Archeology . tape 28 , no. 4 , 2009, p. 412-423 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jaa.2009.07.002 .
↑ Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyzes shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age in PNAS November 25, 2008 vol. 105 no. 47, 18226-18231, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0807592105 .

Web links

Commons : Eulau - collection of images, videos and audio files

Stern's report on the Stone Age cemetery in Eulau

[1] Reg. Thur. No. 287

[2] Karlheinz Blaschke , Uwe Ulrich Jäschke : Kursächsischer Ämteratlas , Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-14-0 ; P. 34f.

[3] Places of the Prussian district of Querfurt in the municipality register 1900

[4] 3sat.online - Violence in the Stone Age - The Secret of Eulau (September 8, 2005)

[5] Christian Meyer, Guido Brandt, Wolfgang Haak, Robert A. Ganslmeier, Harald Meller, Kurt W. Alt: The Eulau eulogy: Bioarchaeological interpretation of lethal violence in Corded Ware multiple burials from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany . In: Journal of Anthropological Archeology . tape 28 , no. 4 , 2009, p. 412-423 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jaa.2009.07.002 .

[6] Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyzes shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age in PNAS November 25, 2008 vol. 105 no. 47, 18226-18231, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0807592105 .