Süderbrarup — Kummerhy

Latitude:
54° 38' 31.49 N
Longitude:
9° 46' 5.09 E
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Section through a Bronze Age burial mound with a tree coffin in the middle and urn burials in the mound
Visited June 2020

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 06/2020
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The mound of the tomb
Visited June 2020

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 06/2020
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The guardian stone with its 45 cup marks
Visited June 2020

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 06/2020
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Image of Süderbrarup – Kummerhy (Round Barrow(s)) by costaexpress

The outer stones are believed to be the remains of a barrow dating back to maybe 2000BC whilst the stone circle is believed to be modern between 650 and 1000AD

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Süderbrarup — Kummerhy

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Süderbrarup – Kummerhy is a late Bronze Age burial mound excavated in 1861. The burnt remains of a dead person were found in a small stone box in the center. Outside the inner, still preserved stone circle is a 2 m high guardian stone (in German Wächterstein). There are more than 45 cup marks on it. Later, presumably during the Viking Age, another dead person was buried unburned, the outer stone circle was created and a new hill about 15 m in diameter was raised over it.

In Süderbrarup, turn into the Bahnhofsstraße in the direction of Norderbrarup. Follow the road for 750 m. Just before the Thorsberger Moor (an old famous German sacrificial bog, in which the Angles deposited votive offerings for approximately four centuries) car park on the right, turn left into the Heuländer Straße and cross the railway tracks. Immediately after the level crossing, the site lies on the right side.

P.S.: The image stabilizer on my camera didn’t work properly on this tour, so some of my images are unfortunately out of focus. Sorry for that.

Visited June 2020

Süderbrarup — Kummerhy

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taken from the on-site Historischer Kultur- und Natur-Wanderlehrpfad information board:
Burial mound Kummerhy

Burial mounds have shaped the landscape of northern Germany for thousands of years. Most of them are visible from afar on natural hills, some groups of burial mounds also follow the course of old path systems.

This burial mound called “Kummerhy” (Kummer = chamber, burial chamber; hy = hill) from the Younger Bronze Age (1100-730 / 720 BC) is situated west of the Thorsberger Moor. It is the last remaining burial mound of a dismantled group of three mounds and was examined as early as 1861 by the excavator of the Thorsberg bog finds, Conrad Engelhardt, and then covered. In 1927 the Süderbrarup Bürgerverein (citizens’ association) excavated it again.

Originally the “Kummerhy” had a diameter of around 15 m, a height of 3 m and had two stone circles of around 6 m and 12-15 m in diameter. In the center was a very small stone cist made of two stone slabs (approx. 50 x 60 cm, ground and ceiling) and 14 small stones that formed the wall. Cremated bones and a bronze needle lay inside.

Outside the stone circle was a so-called “guardian stone”, the side of which, provided with approx. 45 cup marks, faced the hill. In the inner stone circle was another dead man, his head laid on a stone in the border. This apparently included two stone steles (high, free-standing pillars). Today it is assumed that a subsequent burial took place here in the existing burial mound during the Viking Age. Two Viking Age corpses that came to light just a few meters west of the hill also fit in with this. The entire complex with the cup marks stone obtained the new larger stone circle after the two steles were set.

Conrad Engelhardt also reported on four urns that were in the mantle of the hill. Especially in the Younger Bronze Age people used existing mounds as burial places for the burned dead and buried in urns.

The current state of the reconstructed mound shows, all in all, its original appearance, only the stone with its cup mark front has been turned a little more to the east, towards the Thorsberger Moor.

Süderbrarup — Kummerhy

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taken from the on-site information board:

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- Kummerhy burial mound -

Excavated burial mound from the late Bronze Age (around 650-500 BC). The cremated remains of the dead man were found in a small stone box in the center.
Outside the inner stone circle there is an approximately 2m high “guarding stone” with more than 45 cup marks.
Later, perhaps not until the Viking Age (9th-10th centuries AD), another dead person was buried unburned, the outer stone circle was laid out and a new hill about 15 m in diameter was built over it.
Excavated in 1861; exposed again in 1927 by the Bürgerverein (“citizens’ association”) Süderbrarup.

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