Lindø

Lindø
Waters	Lindelse Nor , Danish South Seas , Baltic Sea
Geographical location	54 ° 52 '45 " N , 10 ° 42' 16" E Coordinates: 54 ° 52 '45 " N , 10 ° 42' 16" E
length	5 km

Map of the North - with Lindø

The island of Lindø ( German "Lindeninsel" ; there are several islands with this name in Denmark) is located on the Danish island of Langeland near Lindelse in the south of the "Lindelse Nor", a shallow bay. On the second largest of the five islands in the North, which was probably formed from a headland that became an island due to the rise in the sea, one of the richest Danish settlements of the early Stone Age was examined. Today a dam leads to this low island, where there is only one farm. Lindø is not open to the public.

Stone Age finds

The northern group of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) is distinguished by research into six subgroups named after the sites:

Curslack (Hamburg), Rosenhof near Dahme (Ostholstein) , Satrup and Fuchsberg in the Schleswig-Flensburg district
as well as Troldebjerg , Lindø and Klintebakken, all on Langeland.

During the Stone Age, Lindø was settled several times, most intensely towards the end of the Megalithic Age (around 2,800 BC), from which most of the finds come. Like the inhabitants of the Troldebjerg settlement around the same time, the people of Lindø also ate their agricultural products, livestock, and shellfish and fish. Traces of small houses with adobe walls and a fireplace on the floor were found.

The excavations on Lindø were described by Jens Winther (1863–1955). The finds are exhibited in the Langeland Museum.

Dolmen at Bogøgård

South of Lindelse Nor, about one kilometer as the crow flies from Lindø, between Bogøgård farm and the "Store Vejlebjerg" hill, there is an unexplored dolmen on a small hill. It is the preserved part of a chamber with a pear-shaped floor plan, the remaining parts of which, like the surrounding hill, no longer exist. The prehistoric monument consists of small, regular bearing stones on which a huge capstone rests. The dolmen is one between 3500 and 2800 BC. Megalithic plant of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) built in BC . Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.

literature

Jens Bech: Monuments on Langeland (= Tryk from Langelands Museum. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 2370563-2 ). 2nd edition Langelands Centraltrykkeri, Rudkøbing 1981.
Jens Winther: Lindø: en Boplads fra Danmarks yngre Stenalder . Første Del 1926.

Individual evidence

^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier , Erich Claßen, Thomas Doppler, Britta Ramminger (eds.): Varia neolithica VI. Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual meeting of the North-West German Association for Ancient Research in Schleswig, 9. – 10. October 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , pp. 7-16, here p. 15.

Web links

Plan of the north with Lindø

[1] Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier , Erich Claßen, Thomas Doppler, Britta Ramminger (eds.): Varia neolithica VI. Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual meeting of the North-West German Association for Ancient Research in Schleswig, 9. – 10. October 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , pp. 7-16, here p. 15.