House of the Dead of Tesperhude
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 16.08 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 27.09 ″ E
The house of the dead in Grünhof-Tesperhude (not to be confused with the older burial huts ) is a tomb from the Middle Bronze Age around 1200 BC. It is located near the eponymous Geesthacht districts Grünhof and Tesperhude in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein .
It was discovered in the spring of 1932 and excavated in 1933 under the direction of Karl Kersten (1909–1992). During the removal of the burial mound , which is located directly on the Elbe , the excavators came across a rectangular stone pack with post holes and two grave hollows in which the tree coffins were located, in which a young woman and a two-year-old child had been buried. The tree coffins and the wooden, mud-plastered house of the dead built over the stone packing, about 3.60 m wide on the gable side , had been burned at the funeral service . A mound of earth was then heaped over the remains of the fire.
The builders of the house of the dead in Grünhof-Tesperhude were under the influence of the Lüneburg group , which existed in the older Bronze Age from around 1500 to 1200 BC. Had existed, stretched from the Lüneburg Heath over the Weser to the Wildeshausener Geest and its subsequent central Lüneburg group later in the Middle Bronze Age from around 1200 to 1100 BC. In the Ilmenau area and in parts of the Nordheide (northwest of the Lüneburg Heath).
Local residents, who were questioned immediately before the excavation in 1932, reported a legend about the hill, according to which large fires had burned there in olden times: “In these barg there was a funeral horn. Door lifts in olen tides grote Füer burns. ”( Low German for“ There is a pyre in this mountain. There were big fires there in olden times. ”) The agreement of the content of this legend with the archaeological findings is proof that this customer is round Orally handed down 3200 years.
literature
- Karl-Heinz Willroth : House of the Dead of Grünhof-Tesperhude , in: District of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Part II: Excursions II-IV (Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany, Volume 2) . Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss 1983, pp. 29-32.
- Johannes Hoops : Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Volume 6, 1986, p. 188.
- Ernst Probst : The Lüneburg Group in the Bronze Age , in: Ernst Probst: Germany in the Bronze Age. Farmers, bronze casters and lords of the castle between the North Sea and the Alps . Bertelsmann, Munich 1996/1999