Cult car from Peckatel

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Cult car from Peckatel

The cult car from Peckatel is a sculpture and grave object of the Nordic Older Bronze Age , created around 1300 BC. It was discovered in 1843 east of Schwerin during excavations in the Feldmark of the eponymous village of Peckatel in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . Today it is located in the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and serves as a landmark .

Find history

The cult car from Peckatel on a postage stamp (GDR 1976)

The approximately 38 cm high cult chariot made of bronze, also known as the Peckatel Golden Chariot due to the material used , was discovered in 1843 during the excavation of a burial ground consisting of at least four conical graves in a man's grave. The cone graves are on the railway line from Rehna via Schwerin to Crivitz . When this railway line was built in 1889, one of the cone graves was cut through by the new route.

The classification as a cult car is based on the cauldron-like attachment of the car, which can best be described as a cauldron on wheels and was therefore assigned to a priest by F. Lisch . The car was probably originally made in South Bohemia .

Fragments of a similar tank car were found in 1846 on a hill near Friesack in Brandenburg . The carriages are associated with the Nerthus cult of Germanic mythology described by Tacitus .

The cult car was the motif of a postage stamp from the GDR in 1976 .

literature

  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : conical grave of Peccatel . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 9 (1844), pp. 369–378 (as digitized version).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: About the bronze wagon basins . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 25 (1860), pp. 215–240, 320.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin , Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, ISBN 3-910179-06-1 , p. 686.
  • Jens-Peter Schmidt: The tank car from Peckatel . In: Mecklenburgs Humboldt: Friedrich Lisch , Catalog Schwerin 2001, 105–114.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Georg Chr. F. Lisch: Conical grave of Peccatel. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity, Vol. 9, 1844, pp. 369–378.