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Hilgenbargen Burial Mounds

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Hilgenbargen Burial Mounds

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Hilgenbargen Burial Mounds

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Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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1. View of Zarrentiner See – View of Schaalsee loop from Zarrentin am Schaalsee

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2. View of Zarrentiner See – View of Lake Schaalsee loop from Lehmrade

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3. Lake Schaalsee – View of Lake Schaalsee loop from Zarrentin am Schaalsee

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JR56

December 30, 2021

The Hilgenbargen group of burial mounds is a collection of burial mounds in the community of Seedorf in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein.

The graves date from the older Bronze Age, i.e. from around 1500 to 1200 BC. Since the old field name is Elf-Bargen-Koppel, it is assumed that there were once eleven burial mounds. Today two grave mounds can still be seen very clearly, some of them visible in traces. The largest hill has a diameter of 24 m, the smaller 13 m.

The dead were buried in coffins made of hollowed-out tree trunks, which lay on stones and were covered by stones, and they were given jewelry or their weapons with them in the grave. Above that, the mounds of earth were arched up.

Today the field name is Hilgenbargen, which means something like sacred mountains. Here you can see what importance one still attaches to such burial mounds up to modern times.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grabhügelgruppe_Hilgenbargen

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KnutElch

June 18, 2020

Burial mounds from the older Bronze Age (1500 - 1200 BC); Dm. approx. 24 m or 13 m. - The rest of a group of formerly at least 11 burial mounds (old field name "Elf-Bargen-Koppel").
In the older Bronze Age, the dead were buried in coffins made of hollowed out tree trunks. They were given their jewelry or weapons. The coffins stood on a stone pavement, and the burial mounds were arched over everything. Around 1200 BC In the 3rd century BC, people started to cremate the dead, and the custom of the coffins disappeared. The field name "Hilgenbargen" (= holy mountains) indicates the importance that such burial mounds were given until the modern era.

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Hilgenbargen Burial Mounds

1. View of Zarrentiner See – View of Schaalsee loop from Zarrentin am Schaalsee

2. View of Zarrentiner See – View of Lake Schaalsee loop from Lehmrade

3. Lake Schaalsee – View of Lake Schaalsee loop from Zarrentin am Schaalsee

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