Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Grabhügel Mitterzirknitz
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Overview
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What the sources say
Grabhügel Mitterzirknitz is a megalithic mound in Sankt Stefan ob Stainz, Austria. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q37784145, mapped at 46.9376° N, 15.2702° E.
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About Grabhügel Mitterzirknitz
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Central Europe has a long sequence of burial mounds. The Unetice culture of the Early Bronze Age came first, and the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age, about 1600 to 1300 BCE, raised mounds across Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. The Hallstatt culture of the Early Iron Age made the mound grand again. From the Hallstatt B phase, tumulus burial becomes common, and the Hallstatt period proper, 800 to 450 BCE, produced the "princely" graves of elites who lived in fortified hilltop centres. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Central European tumuli”.
Dating
This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.
Landscape and neighbours
The catalogue lists 0 other sites within 1 km, 2 within 5 km and 11 within 10 km; 11 of them are also classed as megalithic mound. It is one of 1 megalithic mound records among the 1 sites catalogued in Sankt Stefan ob Stainz, Austria.
Nearest to it are Grabhügelgruppe Stallhofmüllerwald, Pichling, Georgsberg (3.4 km south, megalithic mound); Grabhügelgruppe Pleterer, Pichling, Georgsberg (3.6 km south, megalithic mound); Grabhügel im Pumperwald (6.1 km east, megalithic mound); Hügelgräber Pichlberg (7.5 km north, megalithic mound). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Heritage records attach the status Listed objects in Austria to this site. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q37784145), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Access varies from open common land to private fields; check local access rules, ask where needed, and take care not to damage the monument.
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Sources for this section
Nothing on this page was written by an AI model: it is assembled by program from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Central European tumuli”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), with distances and counts calculated from the catalogue coordinates.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Central European tumuli
Central Europe has a long sequence of burial mounds. The Unetice culture of the Early Bronze Age came first, and the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age, about 1600 to 1300 BCE, raised mounds across Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. The Hallstatt culture of the Early Iron Age made the mound grand again. From the Hallstatt B phase, tumulus burial becomes common, and the Hallstatt period proper, 800 to 450 BCE, produced the "princely" graves of elites who lived in fortified hilltop centres.
The largest Hallstatt-period mound in Central Europe is the Magdalenenberg near Villingen-Schwenningen. Its central tomb, of an early Celtic prince, has been dated by tree rings to 616 BCE. The mound once stood 10 to 12 metres high with a diameter of 104 metres; 126 further graves were set in concentric rings around it in the decades after the prince's death, and about 500 BCE the central chamber was plundered by robbers whose wooden spades archaeologists later found. Folklore marks it too: in the 1640s, during a series of witch trials, several women confessed under torture to dancing with the devil on the Magdalenenberg. That is evidence of a belief, not of any event.
The Atlas's records in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are mostly tumuli of this Bronze Age and Iron Age sequence, and most are dated only by their form.
When visiting, look for mounds grouped in a cemetery rather than alone, since families and communities buried together, and for ploughed-down circular rises in fields.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus culture, Wikipedia: Hallstatt culture, Wikipedia: Magdalenenberg, Wikipedia: Unetice culture, Wikipedia: Tumulus · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Photographs
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Where it stands
Austria
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- Coordinates
- 46°56′15″ N, 15°16′13″ EFor a GPS or map app: 46.93762, 15.27024
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Grabhügelgruppe Stallhofmüllerwald, Pichling, Georgsberg
Grabhügelgruppe Pleterer, Pichling, Georgsberg- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Grabhügel im Pumperwald
Hügelgräber Pichlberg
Hügelgräber Wetzelsdorfberg, Stainztal
Grabhügelgruppe Neuröllwald, Zabernegg- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Grabhügel beim Waldhof
Hügelgräber im Kaiserwald
Sources
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Grabhügelgruppe Stallhofmüllerwald, Pichling, Georgsberg3.4 km S
- Grabhügelgruppe Pleterer, Pichling, Georgsberg3.6 km S
- Grabhügel im Pumperwald6.1 km E
- Hügelgräber Pichlberg7.5 km N
- Hügelgräber Wetzelsdorfberg, Stainztal7.9 km SE
- Grabhügelgruppe Neuröllwald, Zabernegg7.9 km SE
- Grabhügel beim Waldhof8.1 km NE
- Hügelgräber im Kaiserwald8.5 km E
- Gräberfeld Rassach9.6 km S
- steinzeitliches Einzelgrab, Prähistorisches Hügelgrab9.8 km NE
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
- Wikidata Q37784145CC0
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