Grüner Hügel

Grüner Hügel is an unexcavated Neolithic burial mound near Aschersleben in Salzlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. It may have been crowned by a menhir. The mound lies about two kilometres northeast of the centre of Aschersleben, close to the Güstener Straße industrial area, and can be reached by a field path running parallel to the A 36.

The mound is covered with trees and is heavily marked by animal burrows. A stone stands on its summit, measuring 1 m high, 0,25 m wide and 0,25 m deep. This stone may be a menhir, but its identity has not been confirmed. Several other burial mounds and menhirs occur in the surrounding area, including the menhir Blaue Gans about 2,5 km north-northwest and the Speckseite, a menhir on a burial mound, about 3 km south-southwest.

Grüner Hügel has not yet been excavated, so its date is based on a typological estimate placing it between 3500 BCE and 500 BCE. The burial mound is listed in the Denkmalverzeichnis Sachsen-Anhalt on page 75. Because the site remains unexcavated, details of its burial practice, contents and precise chronology are not known.

Burial mounds of this kind are widespread across Germany, from the northern plain to the south. Those of the Middle Bronze Age gave the Tumulus culture its name; that culture was dominant in Central Europe from about 1600 to 1300 BCE and buried its dead beneath mounds. It descended from the Unetice culture and covered parts of southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and France. Its society was a warrior society, as the weapons in the graves show.

Grüner Hügel is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Grüner Hügel (Aschersleben)", shown in the original language.