Mitterkirchen float car
The Mitter Kirchner floats is a reconstruction of at excavations in the village feud in the town of Mitterkirchen im Machland in the district Perg in Upper Austria in 1984 in a car grave found the car in which a higher ranking female person from the Hallstatt period , together with abundant grave goods had been buried.
The Mitterkirchen float, which was exhibited by the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum in the Archaeological Museum in Liège as part of the exhibition Tumulus and floats , attracted a lot of attention. The result of the excavations in Lehen / Mitterkirchen in Machland was presented there.
A replica of the car can be viewed in the Celtic village of Mitterkirchen in a faithfully reconstructed walk-in burial mound.
literature
- Manfred Pertlwieser : float and barrow. Culture of the early Iron Age from Hallstatt to Mitterkirchen , (= catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum, NF 13), Linz 1987 ISBN 3-900746-05-2 .
- Manfred Pertlwieser: Hallstatt (700-400 av.J.-C.) A l'aube de la metallurgie , catalog for the Europalia exhibition in the Musée de l'Architecture, Liege
- Manfred Pertlwieser: Tombes a char de l'époque du Hallstatt recent a Mitterkirchen, Haute-Autriche , catalog for the Europalia exhibition in the Musée de l'Architecture, Liege
Individual evidence
- ^ Yearbook of Upper Austria. Museumsvereines, Society for Regional Studies, Volume 133, II. Reports, Linz 1988, p. 13ff.