Hallberg (Osmünde)
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '59.4 " N , 12 ° 6' 2.9" E
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| When | Early Bronze Age | |
| Where | Kabelsketal , OT Osmünde in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | |
The Hallberg was probably a burial mound of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture (2300 BC – 1550 BC) near Osmünde , a district of the municipality of Kabelsketal in the Saale district ( Saxony-Anhalt ). It was destroyed in the middle of the 18th century. In 2013, its former location could be found again.
location
The Hallberg was north-west of Osmünde and north of Benndorf , directly on the Old Salt Road . In the 18th century the area belonged to the Benndorf manor. The Aunjetitz grave of Osmünde, discovered in 1934, was about 2 km to the east . The remains of other Early Bronze Age burial mounds were found in the vicinity. These include the Dieskau burial mound , which was explored in an emergency excavation in 1979 , and the Bornhöck near Raßnitz , which was removed in the 19th century and rediscovered in 2010 , which, with a diameter of 65 m, represents the most important Early Bronze Age grave in Central Germany . In addition, numerous important hoard finds were made in the area , for example the Bennewitz depot south of Benndorf .
History of research and destruction
According to a report by Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt , the burial mound was demolished in 1747 by Canon C. von Taubenheim. Dreyhaupt did not provide any information about the location of the hill. Bertold Schmidt and Waldemar Nitzschke erroneously assumed in 1979 that the Dieskau burial mound they examined was identical to the monument mentioned by Dreyhaupt. In 2013, however, Juliane Filipp and Martin Freudenreich managed to locate the location of the hill on the manor north of Benndorf, where it was known as Hallberg , using land maps from the 18th and 19th centuries . This manor belonged to the canon of Taubenheim in the middle of the 18th century. Filipp and Freudenreich were also able to locate a municipality bill that shows that in 1842 a large number of field stones were sold from the Hallberg location, which probably came from the sheathing of the burial chamber.
description
No information is available on the size of the burial mound. According to Dreyhaupt, the hill was filled with large field stones , probably the casing of the burial chamber . On the floor one found "a flat stone [...] with many round holes" (a bowl stone ). Underneath were the grave goods : an ax and a " battle hammer " made of bronze as well as several objects made of gold . The finds have not been preserved.
The combination of gold and bronze objects indicates a very high social status of the buried. Thus, it can be assumed that the grave is quite significant. The construction also indicates a strong similarity to the neighboring burial mound of Dieskau and the well-researched princely graves of Helmsdorf and Leubingen . The Hallberg could thus have had similar dimensions to these monuments (a diameter of 30 m or more and a height of about 6 m).
literature
- Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben. Volume 1, Schneider, Halle 1749, reprint 1755, p. 651 ( online ).
- Juliane Filipp, Martin Freudenreich: Dieskau Revisited I. Research on the "life story" of the gold hoard of Dieskau and on another burial mound with gold additions near Osmünde in today's Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt. In: Harald Meller et al. (Ed.): Metals of Power - Early Gold and Silver. 6th Central German Archaeological Day from October 17 to 19, 2013 in Halle (Saale) (= conferences of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 11 / II). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-944507-13-2 , pp. 743–752 ( online ).
- Juliane Filipp, Martin Freudenreich: The early Bronze Age wealth in the microregion around Halle-Dieskau - visit to the excavation of the »Bornhöck« as well as other early Bronze Age sites. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. NF Volume 9, 2018, pp. 377-380 ( online ).
- Christian Keferstein : Views on Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany. Volume I, Halle 1846, S 19 ( online ).
- Andreas Sattler : The graves of the Aunjetitz culture in the Saale region. On the ritual of the dead based on the older findings (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Volume 267). Habelt, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3941-7 , p. 97 (No. 81, “Dieskau”).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juliane Filipp, Martin Freudenreich: Dieskau Revisited I. Research on the "life story" of the gold hoard of Dieskau and another burial mound with gold additions near Osmünde in today's Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt. 2014, p. 750.
- ^ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt: Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici. 1749, p. 651.
- ↑ Juliane Filipp, Martin Freudenreich: Dieskau Revisited I. Research on the "life story" of the gold hoard of Dieskau and another burial mound with gold additions near Osmünde in today's Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt. 2014, pp. 750-751.