Großromstedt horizon

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Hermundur fibulae (1st century AD) from Fichtenberg / Elbe

In prehistory and early history, the Großromstedter Horizont (also known as Großromstedter Kultur or Großromstedter Group ) is an archaeological cultural group at the transition from the later Late Latène Period (2nd half of the 1st century BC) to the early Roman Empire in Central Germany . The eponymous burial ground of Großromstedt , an Elbe Germanic fire burial ground , is located near Großromstedt in Thuringia . Other sites are known in addition to Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and East Saxony , especially from Bohemia as well as Main Franconia and Hesse .

The Großromstedt culture is associated with Elbe Germanic settlers near Großromstedt, who spread from Thuringia to the south and south-west in the decades before the birth of Christ. The burial ground there was excavated between 1907 and 1913. In older research, the Großromstedt culture was traditionally associated with the Hermunduren .

Archaeological finds of Elbe Germanic provenance, such as those of fibulae , iron weapons, terrines, bowl urns and ceramic parts decorated with wheels, were mostly interpreted as Hermundurian in older research in Thuringia. Traditional research on Central Germany assumed that the Elbe-Germanic Hermundures gradually spread to the south and south-west in the Thuringian region and that the Celts who settled there dominated or pushed them over the Thuringian Forest .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Norman Döhlert: The dating of the Großromstedter culture On the state of research based on the grave fields of Großromstedt and Schkopau. (= University research on prehistoric archeology. Festschrift for Sabine Rieckhoff. Volume 2). Bonn 2009, pp. 417–437, here p. 417.
  2. ↑ Gustav Eichhorn : The urn cemetery on the Schanze near Großromstedt (= Mannus Library. No. 41, ISSN  0720-7158 ). C. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1927.

literature

  • Gustav Eichhorn : The urn cemetery on the Schanze near Großromstedt (= Mannus Library. 41, ISSN  0720-7158 ). Curt Rabitzsch Verlag, Leipzig 1927.
  • Detlef W. Müller: The prehistoric and early historical settlement of the Gothaer Land. In: Old Thuringia. Volume 17, 1980, pp. 67-69 ( online ).
  • Reinhard Wenskus :  Großromstedt. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , pp. 9-10, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).
  • Thomas Völling: Studies on fibula forms of the younger pre-Roman Iron Age and the oldest Roman Empire . In: Reports of the Roman-Germanic Commission 75. 1994, pp. 147–282.
  • Karl Peschel : The Elbe Germanic burial ground in Großromstedt in Thuringia. An inventory . (= Germanic-Roman research 74). Jena 2018, ISBN 978-3-8053-5148-5
  • Norman Döhlert: The dating of the Großromstedt culture On the state of research based on the grave fields of Großromstedt and Schkopau. (= University research on prehistoric archeology. Festschrift for Sabine Rieckhoff. Volume 2). Bonn 2009.