Male Mountains

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Male Mountains

IUCN Category IV - Habitat / Species Management Area

Spahnharrenstätte - Alter Loruper Weg - Männige Berge 14 ies.jpg
location West of Spahnharrenstätte , east of Werpeloh
surface 4.9 ha
Identifier NSG WE 255
WDPA ID 378121
Geographical location 52 ° 53 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '44 "  N , 7 ° 34' 4"  E
Male Mountains (Lower Saxony)
Male Mountains
Sea level from 33 m to 37 m
Setup date 09/01/2007
administration NLWKN
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The Männige Berge are a burial mound field that dates back to 1300 BC. BC and the turn of the times - during the younger Bronze and Pre-Roman Iron Ages - arose north of Spahnharrenstätte in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . They are called "male mountains" because of their large number, or because of the earlier common belief that "Manneks" or dwarfs live in them.

The Männige mountains are in the heath on an individual with pines and birches lined tombs field , which still has 61 well recognizable hill. The discoloration of the soil in the arable land indicates that the burial ground was originally much larger. In addition to the more inconspicuous, there are also hills over two meters high.

In 1970, six mounds were examined by H.- G. Peters, and in 1972 two more by Wolf-Dieter Tempel (1937–2017). These mounds were made of plague or sand. Extensive layers of charcoal mixed with corpse burn were found in five of the mounds. This indicates that the mounds were piled over stakes . A circular moat surrounds some of the hills . While most a burial salvaged, were found in a hill next to the primary urn burial in the remains of a second urn a Secondary burial . Among the few finds there were two Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age vessels and an iron fibula from the pre-Roman Iron Age .

The structure of the mounds and finds show that the Männige Berge cemetery is likely to be occupied from the end of the Bronze Age to the pre-Roman Iron Age. Larger mounds may even have been formed in the older Bronze Age.

The burial mound is affected by the so-called “Loruper Richtweg”, a straight heather path. A great age of this connection seems possible. Another 300 m long and up to 0.8 m high, "Schwedenschanze", with a ditch in front of it to the east, could have served as a barrier for this and another south-west of the burial mound in an east-west direction.

See also

literature

  • W.-D. Temple: The excavation of two burial mounds of the burial ground. Manifold mountains in Spahn Gde. Spahnharrenstätte Lkr. Emsland . In: News from Lower Saxony's Urgeschichte 56. 1987, pp. 347–355.
  • OM Wilbertz: The "Schwedenschanze" near Spahn and its archaeological environment . In: Archaeological Communication from Northwest Germany 10. 1987, pp. 39–46.

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