Fallward
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 55 " N , 8 ° 32 ′ 7" E
The Fallward is a former Dorfwurt in the state of Wursten , district of Cuxhaven . She is best known for the nearby Old Saxon burial ground named after her on the Fallward .
The Wurt
The Fallward is about 2 km south of the well-known Wurtensiedlung Feddersen Wierde on the beach wall of the Lower Weser in the Wesermarsch . Like the neighboring Wurten, it was founded as a settlement on the plain and only when the sea level rose in the 1st and 2nd centuries. Century AD gradually expanded to a Wurtenhügel. Due to increasing storm surges , the Fallward had to be abandoned again in the 5th century.
Grave fields on the Fallward
The two grave fields are located about 200 m north of the Wurt Fallward, whose residents are likely to be buried in the grave field. The first reference to the graves was a single shard discovered during the archaeological survey in Lower Saxony . After further reading in the 1980s, the cemetery from the 4th and 5th centuries AD was archaeologically investigated through excavations from 1993 to 1998. The location of the graves, some of which were located in damp layers of marshland, offered exceptional conservation conditions for organic material, especially wood. Therefore, otherwise rarely preserved wooden vessels and pieces of furniture could be recovered from the various graves. The finds are exhibited in the Bederkesa Castle Museum.
literature
- Matthias D. Schön: Feddersen Wierde, Fallward, Flögeln. Archeology in the Bederkesa Castle Museum, Cuxhaven district . Bremerhaven 1999, pp. 40-99.
Web links
- TK25 sheet 2317 Dorum (1938) - the Wurt can be easily recognized as a hill.
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. Schmid, Feddersen Wierde. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde vol. 8, 1994, p. 249 f. digitized at Google Books