Idol altar

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Prominent, split boulder

The idol altar is a prominent place in the district of Böttingen ( district of Tuttlingen , Baden-Württemberg ) in the Gewann Zahnholz.

description

The facility is hidden in a forest area between Böttingen and Königsheim and consists of a split boulder made of limestone with surrounding bizarre boulders and a group of burial mounds .

The gap in the boulder runs roughly in a north-south direction.

history

In 1939 shards of a pot with notched decorations were discovered under the rim during excavations . Depending on the source, the ceramic finds are dated to the urn field culture of the late Bronze Age or to the early Hallstatt culture . The finds indicate repeated visits by people. It is believed that the place was used as a sacrificial site or place of worship in earlier times .

Archaeological sites in the area

Numerous barrows were also discovered in the area of ​​the Old Mountain and one of them was opened in 1948. There were other finds at the Heidentor in Egesheim and at Sandbühl in Bubsheim .

Web links

Commons : Götzenaltar Böttingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sights. Idol altar. Böttingen municipality, accessed on January 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Jessica Henkner, Jan Ahlrichs, Sean Downey, Markus Fuchs, Bruce James: Archaeopedological analysis of colluvial deposits in favorable and unfavorable areas: reconstruction of land use dynamics in SW Germany . In: Royal Society Open Science . tape 5 , no. 5 , p. 171624 , doi : 10.1098 / rsos.171624 , PMID 29892361 , PMC 5990778 (free full text) - ( royalsocietypublishing.org [accessed January 8, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c d Find reports from Schwaben NF 11, 1, 1938–1950, p. 68.

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '44.5 "  N , 8 ° 50' 53.9"  E