Over-Jerstal-Kreis

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The Over-Jerstal circle around 100 AD

The Over-Jerstal-Kreis (in the specialist literature Over Jerstal-Kreis , also: Oberjersdaler Kreis , Danish : Over Jerstal-Kreds (en) ) describes a southern Scandinavian cultural group, which existed between about 50 BC. Existed in southern Jutland until 200 AD . The Iron Age cultural group is named after a burial site immediately west of the village of Over Jerstal in Sønderjylland in Denmark .

Characteristic of the Over-Jerstal circle are found during excavations in the 19th century in Overland Jerstal with two horizontal and three grooves in the shoulder area decorated ceramics , which, for example, in form and ornament ceramics further north found with Mäanderverzierung be distinguished. In addition, there were urns with crest decorated bases and black smoothed foot cups. With regard to the shape of the vessels, there were some similarities with finds on the North Frisian Islands to the southwest . In the years 1980 to 1995, further excavations were carried out near the village of Galsted, during which, among other things, several longhouses from the time of the Over-Jerstal district were found. With regard to burial , there were mainly cremation graves , but body and urn graves were also found.

Geographically, a space between Kolding and Flensburg can be identified as a tribal area. The border wall of Olgerdige probably marked the border with the Angles settling to the south . The German archaeologists Friedrich Plettke and Johanna Mestorf identified the Over-Jerstal district with the Germanic tribe of the Warnen (Danish: Varinere ). Per Ethelberg from Museum Sønderjylland supported this thesis in 2013. Tacitus already located the warning as somewhere between the fishing rods and the eudoses (≈ Jutes ). After the Angles expanded north and Jutian tribes southwards, the Over-Jerstal district disappeared around the year 200. During excavations in 2009 on the Sundeved peninsula , it was found that the older houses of the Over-Jerstal district were made up of younger Angles of the Osterrönfeld type were replaced.

literature

  • Uwe Holz: The Over Jerstal district of the older Roman Empire. Master's thesis, Kiel 1991.
  • Johannes Hoops (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia K. Koch, Eva-Maria Mertens: Johanna Mestorf. Work and effect. Waxmann, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1066-5 , p. 190
  2. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag: When the anglers conquered Sønderjylland
  3. ^ Museum Sønderjylladn: Kulturhistorisk Rapport. 2009