Peace Hill
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 46 '27.9 " N , 9 ° 24' 7.7" E | ||
| place | Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | - | ||
The Friedenshügel (rarely also: Friedensberg ; Danish : Fredshøj ) is a burial mound that lies in the west of the city of Flensburg and after which the municipality of Friedenshügel . as well as the cemetery Friedenshügel were named. It is one of the city's archaeological cultural monuments .
Location and shape
The Friedenshügel is located in the Friesischer Berg district , on the northwest side of the main entrance to the Friedenshügel cemetery. The burial mound has a diameter of 20 meters and a height of 4 meters. The so-called Friedensstein stands on the hill. The hill is left natural. A staircase for climbing was not built into the hill. But Jakob Röschmann already mentions the "Wendelsteig" (cf. spiral staircase ), which still exists today, in his book from 1963 , which leads from the northern side to the top of the hill. The northern side is heavily overgrown today. The southern side borders the cemetery. Otherwise the hill drops steeply on all sides. The western and eastern sides of the hill are continuously overgrown with grass.
On the side of the cemetery where the burial mound is located, federal road 199 also leads along. A few meters further is the Citti Park, a large shopping center where bus number 11 stops. The peace hill is therefore easily accessible.
The next known burial mound is further northwest of the Nonnenberg , on the border to Harrislee .
history
The Peace Hill is probably a Bronze Age large stone grave (i.e. a megalithic grave ). In 1597 there was a dispute between the two field communes of St. Nikolai and St. Marien over a hundred years over the border between Nikolaifeld and Marienfeld. In 1718, with the help of the magistrate, a comparison was made between the two field communes. At the end of the border disputes, a boundary stone was placed on the hill in question. On one side of the granite stone that has been preserved to this day, there is an N for St. Nikolai and an M for St. Marien on the other side. The year 1718 is carved into the stone under these letters. The stone also bears two boundary signs, the letter F and the letter F in mirror writing. The agreed boundary line was roughly the Langberger Weg , on which a number of other boundary stones were apparently set up, on which an N and an M and the date 1718 were also stamped. One of these stones was only rediscovered in 2017 behind the Citti-Park-Flensburg , at the beginning of the Langberger Weg.
In 1722 the peace agreement was finally secured by contract. This "peace protocol" concluded at the time proves that the hill was not artificially created as a border marker, but existed before. After the said peace agreement, the previously apparently nameless hill was given the name Friedenshügel and the stone on the hill was named Friedensstein. An additional stone below the Peace Hill, on the eastern side, bears the inscription "Peace Hill Anno 1722". It is apparently unclear when this stone was erected. It was probably only set when the hill was rebuilt later.
In 1911 the "Friedhof am Friedenshügel" was built at the Friedenshügel, which has its main entrance at the Friedenshügel and was named after him. The street that runs along the Peace Hill was named "Am Friedenshügel" on September 27, 1962. In the course of time the name of the cemetery was shortened, so that nowadays it is mostly called "Friedhof Friedenshügel" or just "Friedenshügel". Many people wrongly assume, based on the graves there, that the cemetery was the original namesake.
Say about the hill of peace
The legend tells of the Peace Hill that a battle once took place there. The hill was raised in memory. The stone on the hill would fall down every time war was imminent.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from Flensburg , Husum 1992, page 9
- ↑ a b c d e Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Friedensstein
- ↑ a b c d e f Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 191
- ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ List of immovable archaeological cultural monuments of the Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein (PDF 32MB), p. 328 f.
- ↑ Flensburg Mobil, Westerallee bus stop (direction: Twedter Plack / ZOB) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 30, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Am Friedenshügel
- ↑ See Flensburg Atlas, Flensburg 1978, maps 10 and 11
- ↑ a b c d e Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Friedenshügel
- ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Friedensweg
- ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : City History Flensburg: Found: The last stone of peace , from: 10 August 2017; accessed on: January 3, 2018
- ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : People of the Year 2017 Flensburg: City History as Passion , from: November 22, 2017; accessed on: January 3, 2018
- ↑ The date of installation is not recorded in the literature. See Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 360
- ↑ City Archives Flensburg: Holdings: VI E - Friedhofsverwaltung, Umwelt- und Grünamt , accessed on: December 30, 2014
Web links
- Magical places in Schleswig-Holstein, Friedenshügel Flensburg (page with two photos of the Friedenshügel)