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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Lusebrink Urn Cemetery Alternative Name: Lusebrink Urnenfriedhof Wattenscheid
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 1.207 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Bochum
Latitude: 51.502443N Longitude: 7.147957E
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2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
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2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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The urn cemetery Lusebrink was discovered on top of Lusebrink hill in 1930/31. The hill belonged to the formerly independent city of Wattenscheid, which is now a city district of Bochum (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).

Only little detailed information is available about this site. Because no grave goods were found, it was difficult to date the cemetery. According to Reinold Grasreiner, it is supposed to stem from the "pre-Frankish“-period, which would mean that it is at least older than 300 AD. Taking into account that many Germanic tribes changed from cremation burials to inhumation graves in the 1st century AD, the urn cemetery Lusebrink may hypothetically stem from this earlier period.

Local legends had always associated the area around Lusebrink hill with the presence of ghosts that would even keep the roman soldiers away from this place. Therefore, it seems that, even though the presence of the urn cemetery had been forgotten, the legends preserved an echo of its history.

Today, this area lies beneath a slag heap of an auto body company.

Text References:
[01] Pütters, F.: Wattenscheider Flurnamen nach dem Urkataster von 1823 mit dem Versuch einer Deutung. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Stadt Wattenscheid, Heft 6 (o.J.).
[02] Brandt, K.: Bilderbuch zur Ruhrländischen Urgeschichte Teil II (1954).
[03] Grasreiner, R.: Grasreiner Nachlaß im Dr. Brepohl Nachlaß (Handschriftlich korrigierter Schreibmaschinentext archiviert bei: Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Sozialforschung, Dortmund e.V. (GFS im DIN4 Ordner: »Brepohl Schloß Grimberg u.a.« im: Archiv für Ruhrgebietssozialforschung (ARS ; Dortmund, Rheinlanddamm 199 (Stand März 1990).
[04] Sondermann, D.: Kult- und Grabstätten in Bochum. In: Bochumer Sagenbuch (2004).
[05] Sondermann, D.: Auf dem Lusebrink. In: Emschersagen. Von der Mündung bis zur Quelle (2006).

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