Ball pot
As a ball pot (sometimes bomb pot ) is one in the Middle Ages spread ceramic mold called. The vessels, named because of their spherical shape, were used to prepare meals and placed directly on the fire. From the beginning of the 10th century to the middle of the 13th century, spherical pots are the most common ceramics in northern Germany (states Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ).
In the areas east of the Elbe , however, the spherical pot did not displace the Slavic clay pots with a standing base until the eastern colonization of the 13th century .
Finds
In the summer of 2007, during construction works in Nordhausen in an excavated medieval cesspool some ball completely preserved pots found, which probably date from the 13th century. Numerous spherical pots are known from the Rhineland , and the production facilities there include the Siegburg pottery with Siegburg stoneware .
literature
- Elsa Hähnel: Siegburg stoneware. Cologne 1992 (2 volumes), vol. 1, p. 123 ff.
- Heiko Steuer : On the "statistical" evaluation of early medieval ceramics in the North Sea coast area , in: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte 40 (1971), pp. 1–27. PDF
Web links
- Description and photo of a spherical pot from Lüneburg
- Märkische everyday ceramics in the 13th century. (PDF; 239 kB) Ruth Maria Hirschberg, Berlin, 2001 and 2004, Marca brandenburgensis AD 1260 (PDF file). (236 kB)
- From latrine to bomb pot. Neue Nordhäuser Zeitung, July 4th 2007.