Princess of Schengen

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The princess of Schengen. Attempt to reconstitute the tomb, facsimiles of metal jewelry and ceramic replicas

The Princess of Schengen ( Luxembourgish : Princess vu Schengen ; also: Lady von Schengen or Madam vom Baggerweiher ; Luxembourgish: Madamm vum Baggerweier ) is a woman who lived around 2500 years ago in a burial ground on the banks of the Moselle between Schengen and Remerschen in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was buried. The richly endowed grave with special grave goods was discovered in 1995 while a sand pit was being built , archaeologically documented and scientifically examined.

Find and location

The Princess of Schengen was found in grave number 17 of a Celtic necropolis , one of more than 50 graves that archaeologists documented between 1995 and 1998. The approximately 50 cremation graves date from the late Bronze Age and five graves with body burials from the early Iron Age , namely from the transition from the Hallstatt to the Latène period .

Only four teeth of the woman's body were found in the burial site called tomb No. 17 by archaeologists . The rest of the body was already gone. The woman is said to have been about 1.54 meters tall and around 35 years old at the time of death.

In the grave, organic particles were used to prove that there must have been wood in the grave. From this it is concluded that a coffin may have been used at the burial . In addition to the remains of the torso, the grave also contained an urn with ashes from a male cremation . This combination of two dead in one grave is extremely rare. Why the second deceased was buried in an urn with the woman is not clear. He may have been a close relative.

Exhibition in the Biodiversum in Remerschen

A number of pieces of jewelry were found in the grave, such as: For example: bronze bangles , Celtic necklaces , a chased triangular plate, temple rings and small clasps ( bird fibulae ). Whether and to what extent the woman is actually a princess can no longer be proven with certainty. However, the rich grave goods indicate a high social status.

A reconstruction of the grave and the grave goods were exhibited from November 30, 2018 to February 14, 2019 in the Biodiversum in Remerschen .

Web links

Commons : Princess of Schengen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Claude Molinaro: "The Lady of Schengen" - Biodiversum in Remerschen exhibits exciting finds. In: Tageblatt.lu . December 6, 2018, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ See also: Foni Le Brun-Ricalens: Chargé de direction at the Center national de recherche archéologique (National Research Center for Archeology) in an interview in the Tageblatt, who directed the excavations at the time.