Gallery – Page 7 – ArchaeoRegion Südweststeiermark

Category: Hilltop settlement, Tumuli
The Burgstallkogel near Grossklein and the Sulmtal Necropolis
Burgstallkogel hill near Grossklein is one of the most prominent archaeological sites of the late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Europe (9th-6th century B.C.). With almost 700 preserved burial mounds surrounding a…
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Category: Hilltop settlement
The Nestelberg or Königsberg hill near Heimschuh
In the lower Sulm river valley not far from Heimschuh there is a long forgotten peak with an excellently preserved prehistoric settlement, the so-called Nestelberg or Königsberg. This narrow point of the Sulm river valley…
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Category: Hilltop settlement
The Bubenberg near Spielfeld
The Bubenberg (or Hoar[r]achkogel) hill near Spielfeld is a low ridge in the south of Styria, directly on the border with Slovenia. Archaeological research has proven that the area was used in the Copper, Bronze…
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Category: Castle, Hilltop settlement
The Wildon Schlossberg – a strategic key site
The Wildon Schlossberg hill, with its almost continuous settlement activity, spanning more than 6,500 years, represents a unique finding-place in the southeastern Alpine region. In the 10th and 11th centuries, the Hengistburg castle, located on…
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Category: Tumuli
Tumulus cemetery – Buchkogel/northern slope
Although it has never been hidden, the Hallstatt-period barrow cemetery Buchkogel/northern slope in Unterhaus near Wildon has been known to official Styrian archaeology only since the 1980s. During an excavation in 2006/07 in mound no….
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Category: Castle
Ruin of Spangstein Castle (“Ahnherrenschloss,” Schwanberg)
The ruins of Spangstein Castle, also known as “Ahnherrenschloss” (ancestral castle), are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the Stullnegggraben ditch, located about five kilometers northwest of Schwanberg. From the once mighty castle only…
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Category: Tumuli
Tumulus field Weitendorf/Kaiserwald
The tumulus field Weitendorf/Kaiserwald – a Roman burial ground on the Kaiserwald terrace. With 50 easily recognizable burial mounds, the tumulus field represents the largest area of its kind in the Kaiserwald. It proves an…
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Category: Tumuli
St. Martin i. S./Graschach (Hartwald): Tumulus groups from the Roman period
In the so-called Hartwald, an extensive forest area in the municipality of St. Martin i. S., there are several prehistoric and Roman period tumuli groups, which were attached to the settlements of that time as…
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Category: Sanctuary
Site Frauenberg
The Frauenberg – predecessor settlement and temple mountain of Flavia Solva. Due to its ideal location, Frauenberg hill was already settled in the Neolithic period. A little more information is available only from the Celtic…
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Category: Castle
The motte “Katzelwehr”
The motte “Katzelwehr” at Gleinstätten – a special type of castle. The so-called Katzelwehr is a particularly interesting archaeological monument in the cadastral commune of Maierhof. This is because it is a classic motte –…
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