Mödling burial ground
The Lombard cemetery of Mödling is a Migrations temporal burial ground of the Lombards in Mödling in Lower Austria . Finds made in the graves are dated to the middle of the 6th century.
Find history of the burial ground
The grave field is in the area between Guntramsdorferstrasse and Weißer Kreuzgasse. A Longobard grave was discovered as early as 1907 when the house was being built at Beethovengasse 10. In 1977 more Longobard graves were discovered about 600 m away.
Other grave finds in the vicinity of the burial ground
The area of the burial ground was already in use before the migration of the peoples and served a settlement of the linear ceramists for the extraction of building clay. A Neolithic grave, which cannot be delimited more precisely, is located in the area of the Longobard burial ground. Grave finds from the Roman Empire were made north of the Lombard burial ground, in the area of the southern railway area of Mödling. Not far from there, East Germanic graves were discovered in Lerchengasse in 1954. A few hundred meters northwest of the Longobard burial ground, a total of 499 graves from the Avar period were excavated between 1968 and 1977 .
The Lombard burial ground
The burial ground is relatively small and consists of nine Longobard-era graves, which are placed in a loamy area within a gravel-dominated area. Since gravel is more difficult to dig than clay, the limited space could also be the reason for the small size of the burial ground. But it is also possible that only the members of a single homestead were buried here, and not members of a larger settlement. The dead were buried in wooden coffins facing east-west, with the head pointing west. The burial ground was used in the second third of the 6th century, i.e. before the Lombards withdrew from Pannonia to Italy in 568. In contrast to those north of the Danube and many Pannonian Lombard tombs, the Longobard graves of Mödling are not deprived and are characterized by rich ones Grave goods from. These include lance tips, swords, shield bosses, belt buckles and fibulas.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Peter Stadler: The Longobard burial ground of Mödling, Lower Austria. In: Archaeologia Austriaca . tape 63 . Verlag Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1979, p. 31–47 ( available online [accessed January 17, 2013]).
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 34.8 " N , 16 ° 17 ′ 35.1" E