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Bierhügel Salzmünde
Bierhügel Salzmünde

This grave mound is 2 m high. It has an oval ground line and extends from east to west. The mound has not yet been digged, so no data about date and culture can be said.
Singular mounds had been erected in the neolithic eras.
The name "Beer mound" comes from an occasion, that was told of the year 1222 a.C.. Gräfin Elisabeth of Thüringen was accepted friendly by their landsmen at a visit, so she allowed them to keep their tax. Instead, they should celebrate seven casks of beer each year for free.

Large burial mounds were in use from 1500 B.C. until 500 A.C. In the large mounds the dead were buried within trunk coffin. There is an exceptional cluster in Wilsede. Such habit changed in the younger bronze age when the dead were burnt and the ash was buried in small mounds. Often such mounds were set near stone age mounds, which may have not been eroded at that time, and those places were respected by the successing indo-european immigrants. In many mounds, burial objects were found such as dishes, weapons and attire. Real prehistoric mounds are dented at the top - tomb riders usually do not repair the outlines of the mounds.

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About...
Age:> 4200
Town:6198 Salzmünde
Administration:Mansfelder Seekreis
State:Sachsen-Anhalt
Picture file name:imgq3884.jpg
Picture date:05.04.2009 13:54:00

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