Hügelgräber im Lindetwald

The six mounds stand on relatively high elevations of the Lindetwald. Mound 1 lies near the high reservoir of the local water supply, built in 2008; mounds 2 to 6 lie roughly between the settlements of Vielsassing and Unterteufenbach-Au. When the mounds were built the heights of the Lindet were probably not wooded but were likely used as pasture, so that the mounds were visible from a great distance. They remain well preserved because the area was never used intensively for arable farming.

In the southern Innviertel there are around 60 mound cemeteries or single burial mounds, whereas in the northern Innviertel only two such necropoleis are known. The protected mound cemetery of Lohnergut near Mörschwang likewise lies on a wooded rise.

In the 1920s Johann Huber, the retired head of the dairy at St. Marienkirchen near Schärding, discovered a series of earth mounds in the Lindetwald. He informed the Heimathaus in Schärding, through which contact was made with the Bundesdenkmalamt and Professor Georg Kyrle. After the landowner, Ferdinand von Arco-Valley of Schloss Sankt Martin im Innkreis, had given permission, the mounds were investigated in August 1929. Georg Kyrle published the results in 1932. Some Iron Age finds from the mounds are displayed in the Stadtmuseum Schärding.