Leeberg

Leeberg in Großmugl

A Leeberg or Leebigl (from Ahd .: Hleo, Mhd : le, cf. Ahd. Lewari, hill) is an artificially raised hill that served as a burial mound , as a protective wall of a residence or for another purpose.

Similar to a Herme , a Leeberg can also simply have been a “base” at important crossroads with the Celts, where the travelers were sometimes looked after and entertained by hermits / Ermines and were given information about the further course of the road. As described in several legends, these bases were given "a helmet full of earth".

There is a Leeberg in:

Linguistic variants are Leber , Lebar or Lewer . There are or have been tumuli in Langenlebarn , Gemeinlebarn and in Leberstrasse in Vienna . There is a tumulus called Löwenberg near Unterzögersdorf .

Individual evidence

↑ Franz Mann: What do the field names in the Kirchberg am Wagram district tell us? A home book for young and old . Self-published, Kirchberg am Wagram 1959.
^ Georg Rohrcker: The Celts of Austria, on the trail of our hidden heritage . Pichler, Vienna-Graz-Klagenfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-85431-547-6 , pp. 28 .

[1] Franz Mann: What do the field names in the Kirchberg am Wagram district tell us? A home book for young and old . Self-published, Kirchberg am Wagram 1959.

[2] Georg Rohrcker: The Celts of Austria, on the trail of our hidden heritage . Pichler, Vienna-Graz-Klagenfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-85431-547-6 , pp. 28 .