Migrant settlement
The migrant settlement (also semi-permanent or temporary settlement ) is a phenomenon of Central and Northern European prehistory. After less than a generation (due to soil depletion), migration settlements were sometimes only relocated by a few hundred meters. A semi-permanent settlement method was concluded due to the sometimes multiple overlapping of the settlement areas. The location of the very first settlement, the so-called "old village", is well founded in terms of cultural history.
In Denmark , this form can be found from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age and into the 11th century. Reinhard Schindler encountered the phenomenon in the area around Hamburg as early as 1950 , although it is sometimes difficult to prove that the squares are parallel. Heiko Steuer is of the opinion that relocating entire villages requires a common land or the regular redistribution of arable land.
In Denmark, Grøntoft, Hodde, Nørre Snede, Sejlflod and Vorbasse are considered to be migrant settlements ( Danish Landsbysamfund i forvandling ). In the Netherlands , Kootwijk near Appeldorn in Gelderland and Orte in Drenthe and Friesland were permanent migrant settlements.
In the North German Geest , the imperial and early medieval settlement near Gristede in Ammerland was researched.
literature
- Heiko Steuer: Relocation of early settlements - from the Pre-Roman Iron Age to the early Middle Ages PDF version Original article published in: Gerd Althoff u. a. (Ed.): Person and community in the Middle Ages: Karl Schmid for his sixty-fifth birthday. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1988, pp. [25] - 59
- U. Näsman: Hus, landsby, bebyggelse In DLU 69-86 Copenhagen 1987
- H. Scheibler: Methodical approaches in settlement archeology in the Netherlands 1996
- HA Heidinga: Medieval Settlement and Economy North of the Lower Rhine. Archeology and history of Kootwijk and the Veluwe, the Netherlands (Assen / Wolfeboro 1987).
- D. Zoller: The results of the excavation on the Gristeder Esch, Krs. Ammerland, in the years 1960-1961. New excavations and Research i. Lower Saxony 1: p. 132 ff. (1963).