Three skeletons were discovered during construction work for the local heating network in Freising.
They are around 600 years old.
Freising
- Anyone who digs in the area of the old town of Freising must expect surprises.
Stadtwerke Freising has now experienced such a surprise during the construction work for the local heating network in the city center: At the Rindermarkt, in the area between the parish church and the registry office, skeletons were found around 600 years old.
The history sends its regards.
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The skeletons that construction workers came across at the Freisinger Rindermarkt are 600 years old.
© Siegfried Martin
The support of such construction work in the underground of a historically interesting area by an archaeological office has made itself affordable in this case. Because what the construction workers came across is of great interest. The excavations have been going on since Tuesday after the discovery of the bones was made during the work.
The Archaeological Office Anzenberger from Landshut with excavation manager Forke Prill and Franziska Schreil and Mohamad Ahmado from the AnthroArch office have so far found three skeletons - a mother with two children and grave goods.
According to initial assumptions, these could be rings or parts of a rosary.
The location also suggests that parts of the former cemetery were found here, before it was moved northwards to its present location in the course of the new construction of the St. George Church between 1440 and 1496, in front of the city wall.
Finds do not lead to construction delays
More detailed information - such as the significance of the finds or what happened to the skeletons - was not available from the Anzenberger office or the state monument in the past few days.
As Stadtwerke press spokeswoman Nina Reitz emphasized, the finds should not lead to any significant construction delays.
It is assumed that the work will be continued in the near future.
Only recently, researchers in the Neufahrn community found skeletons that are around 1200 years old - a sensation.
And even during construction work on the “plan” in Moosburg, a skeleton in an astonishing condition was uncovered.
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