Galgenberg (Hundisburg)

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One of the barrows on Galgenberg, 2009

The Galgenberg near the Hundisburg district of Haldensleber is an approximately hectare-sized hill that characterizes the landscape, on which there are thirteen barrows . The early burial ground on the sandy and now wooded hill is 800 meters west of the village of Hundisburg on the dirt road to Bebertal II . The tombs of the Galgenberg belong to the so-called "historical square mile". The Hundisburg brickworks technical monument is 200 meters north of the height , and the quarry lake with the Nordhusen church ruins is 300 meters south . The ground monument is recorded as undated in the state monument list.

history

Prehistoric residents of the surrounding settlement area buried their dead on the hill for thousands of years. Today 13 barrows can be seen here. These grave sites, some of which are surrounded by boulders, date from the early (hill I) and the middle Bronze Age (hill II). Flat graves of both the Baalberg culture (approx. 3500 BC) and the late Neolithic can be found under the mound . The burial mounds were used for subsequent burials . There are fire graves and urn graves from the Younger Bronze Age, as well as urn graves from the Iron Age and the Roman Empire .

Execution site

In the late Middle Ages, the Galgenberg served as a place of execution , as the name suggests. For economic reasons, prehistoric burial mounds were often used for the construction of such elevated and highly visible places of execution. On the hill there were two or three-bedroom wooden gallows set into the ground . Those killed here were probably buried on site with the least possible effort.

Excavations

In the period from 1979 to 1988, two of the barrows were archaeologically examined and reconstructed by the Haldensleben Museum . During the excavations, at least fourteen skeletons without accessories were found, which were often prone, unstructured and sometimes incomplete (missing limbs) without a coffin. These human remains are attributed to those who were executed in the Middle Ages. The findings of the early use were disturbed by round pits with wedge stones contained there. Such stones were used to fix gallows piles to the ground.

The Haldensleber Museum shows the finds and findings obtained during the archaeological excavations. They are presented as models and convey a picture of the work of archaeologists. They are the focus of the exhibition on the prehistory of the museum.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Hauer , The Historical Square Mile: The largest closed large stone burial area in Central Europe , website of the Ecomusées Haldensleben-Hundisburg
  2. ↑ State monument list of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt , as of February 25, 2016, Monument ID 428310049, acc. P. 18 of the annex to the answer of the state government to a small question for written answer , printed matter 6/4829 of February 25, 2016, Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt , p. 21
  3. ↑ a b Museum collections , Museum Haldensleben
  4. ^ Journal for Archeology of the Middle Ages , Volume 37, Rudolf Habelt Verlag (Commission), 2009, p. 218

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 0.3 "  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 13.5"  E