Leeberg (Großmugl)

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Leeberg in Großmugl (2016)

The Leeberg Großmugl in the market town Großmugl in district Korneuburg in Lower Austria is under preservation ( list entry ) standing mound grave (Latin tumulus , plural tumuli ). The tumulus was filled in during the Hallstatt culture and has not yet been scientifically opened. The burial mound is the most striking archaeological relic of the prehistoric settlements located there.

geography

The Leeberg, which is round in plan (i.e. as much as an artificial hill), is located at an altitude of 265  m above sea level. A. and protrudes 16 m from the plain surrounding it. This makes it one of the largest burial mounds in Central Europe. The place name of the market community Großmugl refers to the barrow that can be seen from afar. In the oldest form that has been handed down , it is called Grassemugl , ie large Mugel (hill). There is a cross on the top of the hill.

description

The hill consists of loess or loess clay. Due to the steepness and dryness of its slopes, the Leeberg could not and cannot be used for agriculture. Valuable Pannonian dry grasslands therefore developed on its surface . The Austrian grasslands catalog these were classified as significant regional and represent a diverse island in the evacuated today Ackerlandschaft represents the tumulus bears on its summit a. Wallis fescue - esparto - and on its slopes a couch grass -Trockenrasen. In some places the panicle knapweed ( Centaurea stoebe ) dominates. However, destruction by fertilizers and biocides from the surrounding intensive farming must be feared.

See also

Web links

Commons : Tumulus Großmugl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bundesdenkmalamt : Dehio Niederösterreich north of the Danube , Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2
  2. ↑ Philipp Jettmar, Günther Karl Art: Three cattle skulls from the Hallstatt period settlement of Großmugl, Lower Austria - A short contribution to the skull morphology of domestic cattle (Bos primigenius f. Taurus). In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. 120A, 2018, p. 419 (entire article p. 415–433, PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  3. ↑ Geologische Bundesanstalt (Ed.): Geological Map of Lower Austria 1: 200,000, Lower Austria North , Vienna 2002
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Holzner et al .: Austrian dry grass catalog. “Steppes”, “heaths”, dry meadows, poor meadows: existence, endangerment, possibilities of their conservation. In: Green series of the Federal Ministry for Health and Environmental Protection , Volume 6, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-900-649-065 , p. 120, object ÖK40 / 9

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  N , 16 ° 13 ′ 23.2 ″  E