Grave mound near Wallersberg
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 58.1 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 51.7 ″ E The burial mound near Wallersberg is a Hallstatt- era burial mound northwest of Wallersberg in the Upper Franconian town of Weismain. The grave has the protection status of a ground monument and is managed by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation under monument number D-4-5933-0075 .
Location and description
The burial mound is located about 200 m northeast of the Wallersberg chapel St. Katharina on the road to Mosenberg . The hill is about 1.5 meters high and about 19.5 meters in diameter. On the outside it is bordered by a stone wreath.
Discovery, excavation and historical classification
The barrow was discovered in 1840 by the pastor Lukas Hermann (1807–1863) from Isling . During his excavations, a total of ten burials were found in the hill. The finds included a late Bronze Age needle (1300/1200 BC) on a skeleton, a finger ring, a gold ring, a fragment of a necklace, some urns with gravel and animal bones, but only a few shards of vessels. The barrow was created in the late Bronze Age. About 500–700 years later at the end of the Hallstatt period it was opened and used again as a grave site. Human remains and finds from both epochs were found.
Hermann published the records, drawings and results of all of the self-financed excavations he carried out from 1836 to 1842 on burial mounds in the district courts of Lichtenfels , Scheßlitz and Weismain, so that the Wallersberg burial mound is exceptionally well documented.
literature
- Josef Urban: Leafed through the history books: Stations in the history of Wallersberg, Mosenberg and Weihersmühle in: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Wallersberg-Mosenberg , Weismain 2009, 118 pages