Grave mound field in Erichshagen
The grave mound field in Erichshagen is located in Erichshagen-Wölpe , a district of the city of Nienburg in Lower Saxony. The burial mound field includes burials from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age to the pre-Roman Iron Age . The finds from these prehistoric periods are in various museums in Germany.
The grave field itself is owned by the Museum Nienburg . The owner at the time, businessman Jungebluth, transferred it to the Nienburg Museum in 1912 . The park-like area, on which there are still four burial mounds today, is open for tours at any time.
Research history
Already in the early phase of the archaeological research history, the burial ground came into the focus of the interested public. In 1816 the Count of Münster-Langelage undertook excavations here. His documentation and drawings of the context of the find can certainly be described as scientific, which is very unusual for this time.
In the Bronze Age the dead were buried under Hügelaufschüttungen, in the Iron Age, it was in the grave hills to burials of urns. The extensive finds that Count Münster-Langelage unearthed include a large number of urns and an abundance of high-quality metal objects such as needles, rings and belt buckles. The finds are the first evidence of the existence of the Nienburg group as a cultural group in the triangle between Weser and Aller (Nienburg culture). Most of them are in the Landesmuseum Hannover and some of them can be seen in a permanent exhibition.
The urns were clay pots dug into the ground and closed with a cover bowl. In 1890 these urns and other ceramic finds were published for the first time in the news about German antiquity finds . The term “ Nienburger type ” was coined. Such vessels were also found in other areas of what is now Lower Saxony, but the cultural group and its ceramics were named after Nienburg as the first site.
literature
- Kurt Tackenberg : The culture of the early Iron Age in Central and West Hanover , Hildesheim and Leipzig, 1934
- Karl Hermann Jacob-Friesen : Introduction to Lower Saxony's Prehistory, Part 3, Iron Age , Hildesheim, 1974
- Hans-Jürgen Häßler : Pre-Roman Iron Age in: Prehistory and Early History in Lower Saxony , Stuttgart, 1991
Individual evidence
- ^ The grave mound field in Erichshagen near Museum Nienburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 39 '22.4 " N , 9 ° 13' 50.7" E