Plytenberg

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Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 26'  E

Plytenberg

The Plytenberg is an artificially raised oval mound on the outskirts of Leer in East Frisia near the Ems (about 9 m high with an elliptical base area of ​​62 m × 56 m). It probably served as a viewing hill for the Leerort fortress in the 15th century . Earlier assumptions that the Plytenberg was the grave of a Viking chief or a sea mark have proven to be incorrect on the basis of archaeological investigations in the early 1990s.

According to an old folk legend, a giant is said to have lost a sack full of earth at the place that is now the Plytenberg. Based on a modern folk tale written by Albrecht Janssen , it housed the so-called Erdmantjes .

literature

  • Rolf Bärenfänger / Norbert Fiks (ed.): The Plytenberg in Leer. An enigmatic monument. Questions and answers. Verlag Schuster, Leer 1995, ISBN 3-7963-0316-1 .
  • Rolf Bärenfänger: The Plytenberg in Leer. Ostfriesland. In: Ostfriesland (= Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany. Volume 35) Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1415-8 , pp. 218-221.
  • Albrecht Janssen: Eerdtmanntjes. In: Albrecht Janssen: Störtebeker's treasure. Frisian fairy tales. Verlag Schuster, Leer 1986, ISBN 3-7963-0232-7 .
  • Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Plytenberg in Leer. In: If stones could talk. Volume I. Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 , pp. 62-64.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Hesse: Theiss Archaeological Guide Lower Saxony. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1687-5 , p. 97.
  2. ^ Bärenfänger / Fiks (ed.): The Plytenberg in Leer. 1995.
  3. ↑ radiobremen.de of June 30, 2015: The Plytenberg in Leer , accessed on December 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ Janssen: Eerdtmanntjes. 1986.

Web links

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