Segelsberg (cult site)

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Cult place Segelsberg
Cult place Segelsberg.

Cult place Segelsberg.

Alternative name (s): Segelberg, Segel-Berg, formerly Seegeberg
Creation time : indefinite (prehistoric and early historical wall remains)
Castle type : Place of worship
Conservation status: Wall remains
Standing position : cult
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Segelsberg near Hemleben
Geographical location 51 ° 14 '45.6 "  N , 11 ° 12' 58.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '45.6 "  N , 11 ° 12' 58.7"  E
Height: 191  m above sea level NN
Segelsberg (Thuringia)
Segelsberg

The Segelsberg (also Segelberg ; formerly Seegeberg ) is a prehistoric and early historical cult site on a Zeugenberg near Hemleben in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia . Parts of the ramparts of the once fortified cult site are still preserved.

geography

According to the classification of the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology , the 191  m above sea level. NN high Zeugenberg part of the Hohe Schrecke – Schmücke – Finne natural area of the southern Unstrut mountain and hill country within the red sandstone hill country.

Prehistoric and early historical ramparts

The cult site - a protected ground monument of the TLDA - is located about two kilometers south of Hemleben on a Zeugenberg der Schmücke on the northeast edge of the Thuringian Basin .

On the mountain with an oval summit plateau, wall remnants testify to a prehistoric and early historical rampart . As a raised “outpost” in the flat terrain, the ramparts probably belonged to a larger rampart system of the Schmücke .

The striking height can not be overlooked in the terrain - the sea of grain of the agricultural land around it: the isolated mountain drops steeply on all sides from the oval summit plateau with a circumference of 100 meters by 250 meters, about 40 meters into the flat land.

The Segelsberg was probably once the location of a prehistoric and early historical cult site. The exposed location seems rather unsuitable as a settlement or fortification, especially since a water supply was not guaranteed. Archaeological excavations have not taken place so far, the findings on the Segelsberg are based on a few readings on the remnants of the wall, which are barely visible on the surface. Certain remnants of fastening are not present.

According to a legend, there was a chapel on the Segelsberg in the Middle Ages. The early medieval church in Thuringia has evidently based its institutions on the pre-Christian places of worship of the local population during Christianization , as is probably the case here. The local myth that the sun shines through the mountain on one day of the year points to an older, probably archaeoastronomical and cultic function of the Segelberg .

Remarks

  1. ^ Walter Hiekel, Frank Fritzlar, Andreas Nöllert and Werner Westhus: The natural spaces of Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), Thuringian Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment . 2004, ISSN  0863-2448 . → Natural area map of Thuringia (TLUG) - PDF; 260 kB → Maps by district (TLUG)

  2. ↑ See Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia, protected soil monuments of Thuringia online .
  3. ↑ Cf. Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche: Pre- and early-historical antiquities of Thuringia, with 24 collotype plates and an archaeological map . Würzburg 1909, see keyword Monraburg digitized .
  4. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  5. ↑ See Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia, protected soil monuments of Thuringia online .
  6. ↑ See Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia, protected soil monuments of Thuringia online .

Web links

Commons : Hemleben  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Erhard Schröter: The protected ground monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69. 1986, pp. 63-64 ( digitized version ).
  • Paul Zschiesche: The prehistoric castles and ramparts in Thuringia. Book III, Section IV. The prehistoric castles and ramparts on the high Schrecke, Schmücke and Finne . Halle on the Saale in 1906.
  • Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche: Pre- and early historical antiquities of Thuringia, with 24 collotype plates and an archaeological map . Würzburg 1909, see keyword Segelsberg ( digitized version ).
  • Sven Ostritz, Eva Speitel, Petra Engler, Marvin Mädel: Archaeological hiking guide Kyffhäuserkreis . Langenweißbach 2012, p. 109.