Osmünde grave

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The grave of Osmünde was a grave of the early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture (2300 BC – 1550 BC) near Osmünde , a district of the municipality of Kabelsketal in the Saale district ( Saxony-Anhalt ). It was discovered in 1934 in an already severely disturbed condition. The preserved gifts are now in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) .

location

The grave was located east of Osmünde, roughly at the point where Gottenzer Straße crosses the A 14 today . Artifacts from the Neolithic , Iron Age , Roman Imperial and Slavic times were also discovered at the same site . It seems to have been a settlement site that may have been inhabited since the Neolithic.

About 2 km to the west was the Aunjetitz burial mound Hallberg, which was removed in the 18th century . The remains of other Early Bronze Age burial mounds were found in the vicinity. These include the Dieskau burial mound , which was researched in an emergency excavation in 1979 , as well as Bornhöck near Raßnitz, which was removed in the 19th century and rediscovered in 2010 . In addition, numerous important hoard finds were made in the vicinity , for example the Bennewitz depot southwest of Osmünde .

description

When it was found, only half of the grave was preserved. However, additions could still be recovered. This was a Randleistenbeil of bronze and two small knobs rings made of gold . Remnants of the shaft wrapping were still preserved on the ax . The material and the number of grave goods show that the burial had an elevated social position, but was well below the “princes” who were buried in the neighboring burial mounds.

literature

  • Juliane Filipp, Martin Freudenreich: The early Bronze Age wealth in the microregion around Halle-Dieskau - visit to the excavation of the »Bornhöck« as well as other early Bronze Age sites. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. NF Volume 9, 2018, pp. 377-380 ( online ).
  • Ulrich Fischer : The Stone Age graves in the Saale region. Studies on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave and burial forms in Saxony-Thuringia (= prehistoric research. Volume 15). De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, 179.
  • H. Genz, Ralf Schwarz : Of chiefs and other chiefs - richly furnished graves in the Early Bronze Age. In: Harald Meller (ed.), The forged sky. The wide world in the heart of Europe 3600 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3806219074 , pp. 162ff.
  • Harald Meller (eds.), Regine Maraszek, Juraj Lipták: Bronzerausch. Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (= booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the State Museum of Prehistory, Volume 4). State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-939414-58-2 , p. 99.
  • Andreas Sattler : The graves of the Aunjetitz culture in the Saale region. On the ritual of the dead based on the older findings (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Volume 267). Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3941-7 , p. 145.
  • Bernd Zich : Studies on the regional and chronological structure of the northern Aunjetitz culture (= prehistoric research. Vol. 20). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1996, ISBN 3-11-014327-5 , p. 462.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Osmünder Syringe 1811 eV (Ed.): The Osmünde Code. The millennia old Osmünde. 2013, p. 9 ( PDF; 1 MB ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '48.8 "  N , 12 ° 7' 45.1"  E