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Gießen District

Bronze Age Burial Mound (Hügelgrab) in the Lahnberge

Natural Monuments

Gießen District

Bronze Age Burial Mound (Hügelgrab) in the Lahnberge

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Location: Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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Best Hikes to Bronze Age Burial Mound (Hügelgrab) in the Lahnberge

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1. Elisabeth Church Marburg – Marburg Old Town (Oberstadt) loop from Marbach

23.1km

06:44

590m

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2. Frauenberg Castle Ruins – Frauenberg Castle Ruins loop from Hansenhaus

14.8km

04:10

310m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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A. Theiß

April 21, 2022

According to "Wikipedia" and "Uni Marburg" one of about 200 burial mounds in the Lahnberge. It is probably from the Young Bronze Age 1000 BC. and thus belongs to the "Urnfield culture".

Attention: the way there is partly off-road!

Please leave the ring stones as they are and do not walk around on them!

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Siggi, die 🐌

November 2, 2023

"Burial mound or tumulus
(Latin tumulus, plural tumuli; Greek τύμβος tymbos) is an elongated, round or oval embankment of earth. There are graves or other prehistoric monuments there. The graves can be inhumations (possibly in a tree coffin), urn graves or cremated corpses. The hills can have built-ins, e.g. E.g. from concentric circles, buildings (Trappendal burial mounds), stone burial chambers or stone chests."

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Siggi, die 🐌

November 2, 2023

"Barrows cannot be limited in time or region. They exist in Europe almost universally from the Stone Age through the Bronze Age to the Iron Age and the Middle Ages. Written cultures also knew the burial mound. The Greeks also built burial mounds for their heroes in ancient times like the Etruscans and the Romans. In the Mediterranean they were called tumuli, in Eastern Europe they were called kurgans.

In Eurasia, burial mounds can be found in numerous countries and cultures. The largest burial mounds are probably the mounds above the tombs of the early Chinese emperors. They contain huge underground tombs. The most famous is Qin Shihuangdi's mausoleum.

Burial graves were also common among many Native Americans before the arrival of Christopher Columbus."
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Elevation 350 m

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Location: Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

Bronze Age Burial Mound (Hügelgrab) in the Lahnberge

1. Elisabeth Church Marburg – Marburg Old Town (Oberstadt) loop from Marbach

2. Frauenberg Castle Ruins – Frauenberg Castle Ruins loop from Hansenhaus

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