Garlstedt Lure

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Replicas of the Garstedt Lure in the Museum of Pre- and Early History , Berlin

The Garlstedter Lure is a late Bronze Age lure that was found in 1830 in a burial mound near the Lower Saxon municipality of Garlstedt in the Osterholz district .

In the vicinity of the Garlstedt community, especially in the Elm Forest, there are a large number of burial mounds from the younger Bronze Age, around 1800 - 700 BC. During road construction work on Bremerhaven's Heerstraße , several archaeological finds were brought to light in one of the cut burial mounds , the most spectacular of which are the remains of the bronze lure. The exact circumstances of the find were not documented. The Garlstedt musical instrument is the only find of a lure in Lower Saxony and at the same time the southernmost find of this type of instrument; the majority of the lurs found come from Sweden and Denmark .

Lure von Garlstedt on the Garlstedt municipal coat of arms

Originally the bronze lure preserved in 21 fragments was 192 centimeters long. It consists of at least four cast segments with an average wall thickness of about one millimeter that were soldered together . At one point the lure is only loosely plugged together and secured with a kind of split pin so that it could be dismantled for transport or storage. The sound disc at the mouth has a diameter of 26.5 centimeters and is decorated with eight symmetrically arranged, hemispherical humps. The fragments of the Garlstedt Lure are exhibited in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover .

In the early 20th century, the then Provincial Museum Hanover had several replicas of the Lure made by the Hanoverian bronze caster Otto Hägemann under the archaeologist Hans Hahne . These replicas are all playable, but they do not reach the thin wall thickness of the original. A pair of these replica Lurs is now in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, while a second pair was given to the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) and is on display there.

The municipality of Garlstedt included the Lure in their municipal coat of arms.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Find of the month October 2003: Luren listening on www.lda-lsa.de; accessed on March 20, 2014