Seltzer barrows

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An overgrown grave mound in the Seltzer grave field. Not much can be seen of the actual barrow

The Seltzer barrows are an old necropolis in Alsace .

description

Immediately on the lower terrace of the Upper Rhine near Seltz , on the way to Hatten , in the forests of Aschbruch and Hagenau ( Holy Forest ), there is an old burial ground . Since the 8th millennium BC Traces of settlement can be found here. There are over 750 graves from the Bronze and Iron Ages in 23 graves .

There are traces of several Celtic waves of settlement that began from the 8th century BC. Until the arrival of the Romans in the 1st century BC. Chr. Range. During the excavations of Xavier Nessel and others, numerous finds were made, which can be seen in the museums in Seltz, Hagenau and Rastatt .

The tumuli, also called "tumuli", are between one and five meters high and have an average diameter of 20 meters. It is assumed that the various barrows can be assigned to different principalities, but an exact assignment has not yet been made.

Educational trail through the barrows of Seltz

Notice board at the beginning of the educational trail

On the road from Seltz to Hatten there is a small path to a parking lot on the right a few hundred meters after the motorway entrance. A few meters from the car park there is an educational trail that leads past six barrows in the Seltzer Forest.

The educational trail is part of the Pamina Rheinpark .

There is no sign on the street or in the parking lot indicating the nature trail. The nature trail itself is not in good condition (autumn 2014), so many signs are missing and the burial mounds are mostly covered by bushes and trees.

Originally, a grave slab made of sandstone was attached to some of the sand grave mounds.

literature

  • Trois Tumuli Hallstattiens en forêt de Seltz. In: Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire 24, 1981.
  • Claude Schaeffer-Forrer: Les tertres funéraires préhistoriques dans la forêt de Haguenau. Les tumuli de l'Age du bronze. Musée de Haguenau , Haguenau 1926.
  • Claude Schaeffer-Forrer: Les tertres funéraires préhistoriques dans la forêt de Haguenau. Les tumuli de l'Age du fer. Musée de Haguenau, Haguenau 1930.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 50.4 "  N , 8 ° 4 ′ 33.5"  E