Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
tumulus group
Also known asGrabhügelgruppe
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Overview
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What the sources say
Tumulus group is a megalithic mound recorded in Grüningen, Switzerland. Other recorded names are Grabhügelgruppe. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q29932646, mapped at 47.2714° N, 8.7812° E.
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About tumulus group
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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. The full article, “Central European tumuli”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
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 holds no other site within 10 km, so this one stands alone in its surroundings. The nearest is Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds, 12.3 km to the east. In Grüningen, Switzerland, 1 of the 1 catalogued sites are classed as megalithic mound.
Nearest to it are Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds (12.3 km east, megalithic mound); Dürlerstein (23.0 km west, stele); Fürstengrabhügel Sonnenbühl (24.3 km west, megalithic mound); cromlech de Käferberg (24.4 km north-west, stone circle). 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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Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q29932646), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
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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
Switzerland
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- Coordinates
- 47°16′17″ N, 8°46′52″ EFor a GPS or map app: 47.27144, 8.78123
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.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds
- SteleDürlerstein
Fürstengrabhügel SonnenbühlPhoto: Roland zh , upload on 16. Oktober 2008 · CC BY-SA 3.0
cromlech de Käferberg
Heizenholz iron age burial mound- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tumulus Group
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Iron Age Tumulus Group
- Stone row (alignment)Chilchberg, stone rows of unknown age
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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Image files
- GrabhügelDSC1564.jpgPonte1112CC BY-SA 3.0
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Balmenrain, Iron Age burial mounds12 km E
- Dürlerstein23 km W
- Fürstengrabhügel Sonnenbühl24 km W
- cromlech de Käferberg24 km NW
- Heizenholz iron age burial mound27 km NW
- Tumulus Group28 km W
- Iron Age Tumulus Group28 km W
- Chilchberg, stone rows of unknown age29 km SW
- Oberholz, bronze age-hallstatt burial mound32 km N
- Tumulus group34 km N
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.
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