Burial mound of Tröbsdorf

The grave mound of Tröbsdorf are more from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age dating grave hill at Tröbsdorf , a district of Laucha in Burgenlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt . One of them is crowned by a menhir . The grave goods can be assigned to the Bernburg culture (3100–2650 BC), the cord ceramic culture (2800–2200 BC) and the Bronze Age.

location

Seven to eleven burial mounds are listed in Tröbsdorf in the list of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. They are divided into two groups, one of which is 700 m north of the village on the Nebraer Berg . The second group is 500 m west of the village. The northern group consists of three to five hills. Two hills are close together in an east-west direction; the western of the two has a menhir. There is a third hill on the southern slope of the Nebra mountain. Also on the southern slope, not far from the first two hills, there is a possible fourth hill. According to the monument register, the western group consists of four to six hills. One is on the Heidelberg, a second on the Bühnzchen, a branch of the Neideck, a third hill is on the southern edge of the Neideck and a fourth on the back of the Neideck. In the case of two grave finds below the Heidelsberg and in the clay pit, it is unclear whether they were originally overgrown.

description

The northern group

Hill 1

The burial mound was examined in 1864 by Friedrich Klopfleisch and again in 1898 by Kuntze. It originally had a double stone wreath and a menhir on its top. The stone wreath has not been preserved. The menhir is pillar-shaped and consists of fine-grain sandstone . It has a height of 150 cm, a width of 50 cm and a thickness of 30 cm. It has a natural cavity on the front.

The mound already showed a malfunction during Klopfleisch's examination, but it was still able to find skeletal remains, a wide mug with a peg and other ceramic shards.

Hill 2

The second hill was also examined by Klopfleisch in 1864. It covered four grave pits, each with a skeleton. Between these pits there were several smaller pits that contained additions. A pit containing an ax from serpentine and a flint - ax , a second containing two vessels Bernburger culture. During a subsequent excavation in 1898, a beaker decorated with string, a fragment of a stone ax and three spindle whorls were found on the edge of the hill .

Hill 3

Hill 3 was excavated in 1898. It consists of loess and had three stone fixtures. On the east side, three vertical stone slabs were found, under which a cup with dotted ribbons was found, which was assigned to the ribbon ceramics . However, this cannot be connected to the burial mound, as it is much older. In the vicinity, however, a ceramic settlement was found. Presumably the cup was moved to the hill. In the middle of the hill was a north-south facing chamber made of stone slabs. It contained the remains of a skeleton, but no additions. A stone setting was found in the west with a skeleton next to it; no additions were found here either.

Possible hill 4

A possible fourth, very flat hill was ransacked in 1898 for the extraction of stones before a detailed investigation. A follow-up examination revealed a bowl and a cup-like pot (both undecorated), two flint arrowheads and a curved bronze needle with a club head.

The western group

Hill on the Heidelberg

The hill was excavated in 1889. It contained a stone box in which an amphora adorned with string, an amphora-shaped pot and the loop of another amphora were found. Nothing is known about skeletal finds.

Hill on the stage

This hill also contained a stone box at its bottom. It was quite tall and its capstone was missing. Only remains of the skeleton were preserved. Two amphorae decorated with string, two string cups, a cup cup with string decor, a stone ax made of silica slate as well as two knives, a scraper and an arrowhead made of flint were found among grave goods . The grave also contained two jaws of a dog's skull .

A second grave was discovered further up in the mound just below the crest. It consisted of layered stones and had a pavement on the floor. Two bulbous pots, a mug and three bowls used as lids were found in the grave. Burned-out bones were found in the pots, next to them were unburned tubular bones. A bronze neck ring was also found. A sheet of iron was probably not part of the grave inventory.

Hill on the southern edge of the Neideck

This hill was excavated in 1899. It contained a north-south oriented narrow stone box in which skeletal remains but no grave goods were found.

Hill on the back of the Neideck

Numerous coarse ceramic shards were found in the upper area of the hill. A skeleton was found in a very narrow stone setting with a sandstone block on its lower legs. A bowl, a stone ax, an oval clay spoon, a bony awl and an armring made of copper or bronze were found among the accessories .

Unclear findings

Grave below the Heidelberg

In 1898 a stone packing was discovered in the field under the Heidelberg, which contained a tubular vessel, a bronze needle, a bronze awl and a bronze knobbed ring. It is unclear whether there was a dismantled burial mound here.

Stone box in the Tröbsdorf clay pit

In the Tröbsdorfer loam pit, a stone box with a south-north oriented skeleton was also found in 1892 between ceramic settlement findings. It is unclear whether the box was originally overrun. The box contained a pot and a bronze needle as accessories.

The burial mounds in regional sagas

Several legends are known about the burial mounds on Nebraer Berg . One is said to have a brewing pan full of gold. Someone who lifted a stone from the perimeter of Hill 1 was found to have been found with his neck turned. The menhir on this hill is said to wobble when the rooster crows.

literature

Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Halle (Saale) 1984, p. 143.
Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche : The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1909, pp. 86-89 ( online ).
Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 389, 462.
Waldemar Matthias : Catalogs on Central German Cord Ceramics. Volume 4. South Harz-Unstrut area. Ulrich Fischer dedicated to the leading specialist in the field of string ceramics research on the occasion of his 60th birthday on July 3, 1975 in a collegial bond (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 28). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1974, pp. 270–274.
Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, pp. 15-16.
Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , p. 140.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 462.

51.24952 11.6285Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '58.3 " N , 11 ° 37' 42.6" E

[Groht-1] Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. P. 462.