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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Heiligtum Ossum Alternative Name: Gripswalder MatronensteineCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 8.264 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Meerbusch Nearest Village: Ossum
Latitude: 51.306629N Longitude: 6.645420E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Heiligtum Ossum is assumed to have been a Roman-style temple built most likely by the Germanic tribe of the Ubii in Meerbusch-Ossum (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).
A group of Gallo/Germanic-Roman votive stones was found near Gripswald castle in 1863 (coordinates: ca. 51.302066, 6.645126). Six of the stones are dedicated to Matronae Octocannae and one to Mercurius Arvernus. It is assumed that they date from the late 2nd century AD or early 3rd century AD. They share certain similarities with the stones from the Matronenheiligtum Nettersheim in Blankenheim.
The votive stones were found in the excavated ruins of a small house of unknown function. The building is most likely not the original temple. It has been speculated that the votive stones have been hidden in this place.
The original stones are displayed in the Rheinisches Landemuseum in Bonn. A replica of the votive stone No.1 can be seen near the original site in front of St. Pankratius church (see coordinates at the top of the page).
Literature:
[01] Fiedler, F.: Die Gripswalder Matronen- und Mercuriussteine. Festprogramm zu Winckelmanns Geburtstage am 9. December 1863. Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande (1863).
[02] Ihm, M.: Der Mütter- oder Matronenkultus und seine Denkmäler. In: Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande. Heft 83 (1887).
[03] Reichmann, C.: Das Heiligtum in Krefeld-Elfrath. In: Die Heimat 62 (1991).
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