Menkendorfer Group

Menkendorf castle wall

Menkendorfer Keramik, Björkö

The Menkendorfer Group was a Middle Slavic archaeological ceramic group from the 9th to 10th centuries in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It stretched from the Mecklenburg Lake District to the Baltic Sea region and is named after finds in the Menkendorf castle wall .

description

The Menkendorfer group followed the Feldberger group in the 9th century and was replaced by the Teterower , Vipperower and Weisdiner groups . The pottery was ornate and was turned on a disk. The term Menkendorfer Keramik was introduced by the Mecklenburg archaeologist Ewald Schuldt in a typology of Slavic ceramics in 1961. The settlements of the Menkendorfer Group were on lakes and rivers. Castle ramparts were surrounded by wood and earth ramparts and were mostly low castles. Often, facilities of the Feldberger Group continued to be used (Ganschendorf, Thüren, Kieve), more rarely new castles were built near existing facilities (Wolkow).

Important sites of the Menkendorfer Group are:

• Groß Raden castle wall = main site
• Wolde Castle Wall
• Kieve ramparts
• White Wall Volkov
• Ganschendorf castle wall
• Burgwall at Thürensee
• Katzow castle wall

The attempt to assign the Menkendorfer ceramics style to the Abodrites and the Feldberg ceramics to the Wilzen and the resulting idea of ​​a displacement of the Wilzen by the Abodrites to the east could not prevail.

See also

• Ceramics from the Leipzig Group

literature

• Sebastian Brather :  Slavic ceramics. Elbe Slavs. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 29, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018360-9 , pp. 79-87. on-line
• Sebastian Brather: Archeology of the Western Slavs. Settlement, economy and society in early and high medieval East-Central Europe. Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Vol. 30. Berlin ²2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020609-8 , online search
• Joachim Herrmann : The Slavs in Germany. History and culture of the Slavic tribes west of Oder and Neisse from the 6th to 12th centuries. A manual. Berlin 1985.
• Ewald Schuldt : Big Raden. The pottery of a Slavic settlement of the 9th / 10th century. in: Contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg , vol. 14. Berlin 1981

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lothar Dralle: Slaven an Havel and Spree: Studies on the history of the Hevellisch-Wilzian principality (6th to 10th centuries). (= Giessen treatises on the agricultural and economic history of the European East, Vol. 108), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981 ISBN 3-428-04723-0 , p. Bernhard Friedmann: Investigations into the history of the abodritic principality up to the end of the 10th century (= Eastern European studies of the state of Hesse. Series 1: Giessen treatises on agricultural and economic research in the European East. Vol. 197). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-428-05886-0 , p. 88
2. ↑ Fred Ruchhöft: From the Slavic tribal area to the German bailiwick. The development of the territories in Ostholstein, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania in the Middle Ages (= archeology and history in the Baltic Sea area. Vol. 4). Leidorf, Rahden (Westphalia) 2008, ISBN 978-3-89646-464-4 , p. 31