Grave mound at Weihersmühle

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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 55.9 ″  E

The burial mound at Weihersmühle

The grave hill at Weihermühle is an about-preserved half grave mounds from the Hallstatt period when Weismainer district Weihermühle in the district of Lichtenfels , Bavaria . It is listed as a ground monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments under the number D-4-5933-0074 .

History and discovery

During the expansion of the road from Weihersmühle to Wallersberg , shortly after the confluence from the Wallersberg direction, a barrow from the earlier Iron Age or Hallstatt period from the 7th to 6th centuries BC was opened in 1965 Discovered. In the 14th century, a mound tower (Motte) with a fence and moat was probably built on the burial mound . The fortress tower had served to control the Köttler Grund valley, a side valley of the Kleinziegenfelder valley , and blocked it off between the Brunnbach and the rocky slope below Wallersberg.

literature

  • Josef Urban: Leafed through the history books: Stations in the history of Wallersberg, Mosenberg and Weihersmühle. In: Markus Hatzold: Festschrift of the Wallersberg-Mosenberg volunteer fire department. Weismain 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burial mounds from the Hallstatt period , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Urban (2009), p. 41