Grave field of Obermöllern

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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Grave field of Obermöllern
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location Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Location Obermöllern
Grave field of Obermöllern (Saxony-Anhalt)
Grave field of Obermöllern
When End of the 5th century - 6th century
Where Obermöllern , Bad Kösen / Saxony-Anhalt
displayed State Museum for Prehistory Halle / Saale (collection, internal)

The old Thuringian grave field of Obermöllern from the Merovingian era was excavated by Friedrich Holter in 1925 and examined by the Landesmuseum Halle until 1931 .

Find description

The grave field was examined by the Landesmuseum Halle from 1925–31; 31 body burials have been recorded so far. The publication was carried out by Berthold Schmidt, who assigned the found material to levels IIb and III. (Late 5th century and 6th century). It serves here in its entirety as an example of a burial field of time section B, usually referred to as (old) "Thuringian". According to Holter's interpretation, the burial field and probably also the courtyard were abandoned at the turn of the 5th to 6th century AD .

exhibition

Grave finds from the Merovingian era from Obermöllern - a gold bracteat from grave 20, an S- fibula and an artificially deformed woman's skull from grave 25 - were shown in the special exhibition "Beauty, Power and Death" from December 11, 2001 to April 28, 2002 in the State Museum for Prehistory Halle / Saale shown. The gold bracteate from grave 20 as well as a pair of pliers brooches from it and additions from a warrior's grave (grave 15) - a sword, a lance tip with fine punch decoration on a curved leaf and a Germanic shield boss, a turntable bowl , a bone comb and tweezers - were previously in the state exhibition "The Alamannen" from the Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg exhibited in 1997 in Stuttgart and 1998 in Zurich and Augsburg.

literature

  • Ms. KR Holter : The grave field near Obermöllern from the time of old Thuringia (=  annual publication for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries . Volume 12 , issue 1). State Institute for Prehistory, Halle 1925 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Claudia Theune : Methodology of Ethnic Interpretation. Consideration for the interpretation of the grave finds from the Thuringian settlement area . In: Sebastian Brather (Hrsg.): Between late antiquity and early middle ages. Archeology of the 4th to 7th centuries in the West (=  Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volumes ). tape 57 . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020049-2 , p. 211-235 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cf. Magical Amulets of the Teutons. and a stranger in the Thuringian Empire. In: Harald Meller (ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. 120 finds from 120 years of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition from December 11, 2001 to April 28, 2002 in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle / State Office for Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, State Museum of Prehistory. State Office for Archeology, Halle 2001, ISBN 3-910010-64-4 , pp. 206–207.
  2. ↑ See Ursula Koch : Ethnic Diversity in the Southwest. Observations in Merovingian burial fields on the Neckar and Danube. In: Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg: The Alemanni. 4th edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1535-9 , pp. 219–232, here pp. 229–230, figs. 242–244.

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