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Archeology and extraordinary finds: Once to the beginning of Pliening and back

2022-11-24T16:14:50.116Z


At the invitation of the Pliening local history association, archaeologists explained many of the finds on the site of the future senior citizens' housing project. Some of these are considered extraordinary.


At the invitation of the Pliening local history association, archaeologists explained many of the finds on the site of the future senior citizens' housing project.

Some of these are considered extraordinary.

Pliening - Long before the first written mention of Pliening (in the year 813) people had settled there.

This is suggested by numerous archaeological finds discovered by the company X-Cavate Archeology in the area near the Plieninger church.

The two managing directors and archaeologists Ursula Scharafin-Hölzl and her husband Mario Hölzl reported on the finds and their connection with Pliening's history in a lecture at the invitation of the Pliening local history association.

Among other things, settlements were found from the so-called Bell Beaker culture, a time around 2500 BC.


Pliening: Archeology can be presented in an exciting and descriptive way

Ursula Scharafin-Hölzl explained the archeology of the area on which the senior citizens' residential complex is being built using slides that were well prepared and easy to understand.

Scharafin-Hölzl managed to bring history to life and take the 60 or so visitors on a journey through time in the fully occupied parlor of the town hall.


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Group picture with pot and flowers (from left): Mario Hölzl (archaeologist), Kurt Strehlow (1st chairman of the local history association Pliening), Ursula Scharafin-Hölzl (archaeologist) and Anton Jell (2nd chairman of the local history association).

© Gabriele Heigl

When asked how it came about that people settled in that place so early, Scharafin-Hölzl answered: "The most important thing is access to water." The archaeologists discovered several wells up to 4.5 meters deep.

"All of the wells that have been excavated document on the one hand the prehistory in the Hallstatt period as well as the early and high Middle Ages."


Pliening: Traces of the very first Plieningers

From one of more than a dozen wells, the archaeologists pulled out three iron keys that are about 1000 years old.

They were discovered in a well whose wood was still intact thanks to the moisture in the earth.


Ursula Scharafin-Hölzl reported that archaeologists have unearthed "quite exciting finds" from a late medieval well (dating from around 1565): a large, almost complete pot and a small vessel from the 13th century.

The archaeologist had brought the pot to the lecture.


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The Bürgerstüberl was full.

© Gabriele Heigl

With her explanations of the finds, the archaeologist led the visitors through 2000 years of contemporary history.

She talked about the living and eating habits in the different epochs and about the different types of burial.

Two circular ditches, for example, would prove that in the Hallstatt period (800-620 BC) elites ruled in Pliening.

"Grave mounds are not the burial places of simple farmers," says Scharafin-Hölzl.

A decorated and painted shard found on the site also suggests elites.


Heimatverein Pliening hopes for an exhibition

The scientist reported that a total of 1,736 findings had been archaeologically examined on the area.

Of these, 14 are burials from the early Middle Ages and two other graves in which the bones have not been preserved.

According to Scharafin-Hölzl, the processing time was six months net.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)

After the lecture, the visitors took the opportunity to ask the experts questions.

Since the interest was great, the question and answer session lasted almost longer than the presentation.

There was also the question of the whereabouts of the finds.

These are still in the State Office for Monument Protection for certification.

However, they remain the property of the municipality, which can reclaim them for presentation.

So it would be possible to set up your own exhibition in Pliening.


"Not only the local history association around the first chairman Kurt Strehlow is happy about the prospect of being able to present at least some of the artefacts found in an exhibition in the future club rooms of the renovated old school in Gelting," writes the local history association in a press release.

You can find more current news from the district of Ebersberg at Merkur.de/Ebersberg.


Source: merkur

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