Steinkreise (Buerserberg)
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Steinkreise (Buerserberg) is a stone circle recorded in Bürserberg, Austria. Its entries are Wikidata item Q134571827; the position in the catalogue is 47.1548° N, 9.7583° E. Wikidata gives an elevation of 1200 m.
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About Steinkreise (Buerserberg)
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Stone circles are found far beyond their north-western European heartland. The most famous Asian example is the Ōyu Stone Circles in Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, in northern Japan, a late Jōmon period site of about 2000 to 1500 BCE. It consists of two large stone circles built on an artificially flattened plateau on the left bank of the Ōyu River. The site was discovered in 1931, excavated in detail in 1946 and in 1951 to 1952, and designated a Special National Historic Site in 1956. Each circle is made of rounded river stones brought from a river about 7 kilometres away, set in two concentric rings. The larger, called Manza, is the largest stone circle found in Japan; its clusters of stones have been read as a sundial pointing to the summer solstice sunset. The full article, “Stone circles in other regions”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
Dating
No date has been recorded for this site, and the Atlas does not guess one. 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 holds no other site within 10 km, so this one stands alone in its surroundings. The nearest is Römerstein in Hard, 36.4 km to the north. In Bürserberg, Austria, 1 of the 1 catalogued sites are classed as stone circle.
The closest catalogued sites are Römerstein in Hard (36.4 km north, stele); Parc la Mutta (55.9 km south-west, stone row); Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds (62.9 km west, megalithic mound); Cultural heritage D-7-8126-0009 in Legau (80.8 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
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No heritage register entry is attached to this site in the records the Atlas uses; that does not show whether national law covers it. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q134571827), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
How this page was madeSources for this section
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This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0) and the regional article “Stone circles in other regions”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Stone circles in other regions
Stone circles are found far beyond their north-western European heartland. The most famous Asian example is the Ōyu Stone Circles in Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, in northern Japan, a late Jōmon period site of about 2000 to 1500 BCE. It consists of two large stone circles built on an artificially flattened plateau on the left bank of the Ōyu River. The site was discovered in 1931, excavated in detail in 1946 and in 1951 to 1952, and designated a Special National Historic Site in 1956. Each circle is made of rounded river stones brought from a river about 7 kilometres away, set in two concentric rings. The larger, called Manza, is the largest stone circle found in Japan; its clusters of stones have been read as a sundial pointing to the summer solstice sunset.
The word cromlech is also applied to large stone circles such as those in Odry in Poland and among the Carnac stones in Brittany, and in many languages, including Azerbaijani, Armenian, Greek, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish, it is the usual term for a megalithic stone circle. Odry is the Polish cromlech. Elsewhere in Europe the Atlas has small numbers of circles in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Germany. Some structures are called stone circles for historic reasons or by mistake, so labels need care. The Senegambian stone circles of West Africa have their own article.
Often similar structures are called stone circles by historic habit or by mistake, and the name alone does not show that a ring is prehistoric. The Atlas does not guess, and gives each circle the range of the culture it belongs to.
When visiting, compare the circle with the landscape, and look at what is visible from its centre.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Ōyu Stone Circles, Wikipedia: Stone circle, Wikipedia: Cromlech · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Photographs
7 photographs, each with its author and licence
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Where it stands
Austria
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 47°09′17″ N, 9°45′30″ EFor a GPS or map app: 47.15476, 9.75831
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.
Römerstein in Hard
Parc la Mutta- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds
tumulus group- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-7-8126-0009 in Legau3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-7-8228-0008 in Lauben (Landkreis Oberallgäu)3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Oberholz, bronze age-hallstatt burial mound
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Cultural heritage D-7-8127-0052 in Bad Grönenbach3500–500 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 01Wikidata Q134571827wikidata.org
Image files
- Buerserberg-stone circle-10ESD.jpgRikki MittererCC BY-SA 4.0
- Steinkreis Tschengla.jpgM WirnspergerCC BY-SA 4.0
- Buerserberg-stone circle-01ASD.jpgAsurnipalCC BY-SA 4.0
- Buerserberg-stone circle-03ASD.jpgAsurnipalCC BY-SA 4.0
- Stein Tschengla.jpgM WirnspergerCC BY-SA 4.0
- Zentralstein des Steinkreises.jpgM WirnspergerCC BY-SA 4.0
- Buerserberg-stone circle-01ESD.jpgRikki MittererCC BY-SA 4.0
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Römerstein in Hard36 km N
- Parc la Mutta56 km SW
- Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds63 km W
- Cultural heritage D-7-8126-0009 in Legau81 km N
- Cultural heritage D-7-8228-0008 in Lauben (Landkreis Oberallgäu)81 km NE
- Cultural heritage D-7-8127-0052 in Bad Grönenbach86 km NE
- Cultural heritage D-7-8127-0057 in Bad Grönenbach88 km NE
- Cultural heritage D-7-8027-0051 in Kronburg89 km N
- Cultural heritage D-7-8027-0042 in Woringen91 km N
- Cultural heritage D-7-8026-0031 in Memmingen92 km N
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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.
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- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
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