Mannersdorf burial ground

The burial ground near Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge is located near Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria . From 1905 onwards, a large number of graves from the Early and Late Bronze Ages as well as from the Early and Middle Latène Ages were uncovered here in several excavation periods .

Found location

In the corridor "Reinthal Süd" near Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge there is a necropolis on a foothill of the Leithagebirge with an extension of 200 by 50 m. The first excavations were carried out in 1905, 1906 and 1912 by Ritter v. Seracin (also written Seracsin) by.

A chance find in 1976 while plowing led to planned excavations by the Mannersdorf Museum and the Federal Monuments Office until 1984 . In addition to the Bronze Age graves mentioned, 96 body and cremation burials from the Latène period were uncovered. Some pits were provided with circular or square enclosures that sometimes grew together to form groups of graves. The pits were often reinforced with stone linings or stone packings. A total of 48 women were buried in the body, plus 24 men; the cremation graves cannot be evaluated for gender determination. S-shaped and fish-bubble-shaped (grave 184) stamp impressions on several ceramic vessels were precisely measured and photographed, and it was found that these not only come from the same stamps in Mannersdorf, but also appear in other sites in the Lower Austria / West Hungary region ( Neunkirchen , Pöttsching , Pottenbrunn burial ground and Sopron-Krautacker burial ground ).

A 4-5 year old girl was buried in a children's grave (grave 4). The tomb had a sole depth of 0.94 cm, a length of 2.08 and a width of 1.9 m. The stone packing was made of limestone and fibulae , amber and glass beads, a bear tooth, a lignite ring, some finger, arm and ankle bracelets, as well as a tubular jug, a bottle and a foot-washing vessel were found as grave goods .

Grave 13 with the remains of a young woman also contained rich additions: a fibula with mask jewelry, a necklace made of amber, bronze, glass and coral, a bronze wheel pendant and a gold ring, as well as arm and leg jewelry and an Etruscan bronze situla with two handles. Attashes in the shape of lotus flowers .

In grave 76 an “Omega needle” from Illyrian production was found, in grave 115 two gold bracelets with granulation , in grave 180 - presumably a warrior's burial - a pierced lance tip with a broad leaf.

literature

• Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer : The Mannersdorf Cemetery. In: Catalog “The Celts” , Venice 1991, p. 298 f.
• Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer: The Celts in Eastern Austria. In: Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe No. 92/93/94, St. Pölten / Vienna 1992.
• Peter C. Ramsl: The Celtic grave fields of Pottenbrunn and Mannersdorf. Two hubs between West and East. Archeology of Austria No. 13/1, 2002.
• Peter C. Ramsl: The Latency burial ground of Mannersdorf in the Leithagebirge, corridor Reinthal Süd, Lower Austria. Studies on phenomena of the cultural manifestations of the Latène period, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Announcements of the Prehistorische Kommission Volume 74, Verlag der ÖAW, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7001-6720-4 .
• Susanne Sievers , Otto Helmut Urban , Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A-K; LZ . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , p. 1237 f.

Web links

• Beate Pomberger: The Urnfield Age burial ground of Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ seracin / Zehenthofer: The cemetery of Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge. In: Wiener prehistorische Zeitschrift No. 3, 1916, pp. 71–96.
2. ^ Hanna Philipp: Bronze jewelry from Olympia . Walter de Gruyter, 1981, ISBN 3-11-007191-6 , p. 97 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Images from grave 115 and 180 in: Sievers / Urban / Ramsl: Lexikon zur Keltischen Aräologie . A-K, LZ , p. 1237.

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 41.3 ″  N , 16 ° 34 ′ 12.5 ″  E