Die Siedlung der Hallstattkultur von Göttlesbrunn, NÖ

The dissertation deals with the first worked out findings from a typical flat settlement in the eastern parts of Austria, which were recently uncovered (1989). The former place of the early iron age was located in the south of the village Göttlesbrunn near Bruck an der Leitha (Lower Austria) on a very flat and fertil grounded ridge ("Loess"). The rescue-excavations researched only the endagered strip which was used for the construction of the motorway A4 (from Vienna to Budapest). It consisted of partly subterraneous houses with square floor plans (approx. 9-12 m), comparable smaller buildings for economic activities and pits (in all 52 objects). Relating to the reconstructions of these buildings the author thinks about loghuts and houses with wickerwork-walls. In the square dwelling houses the archeologists found some fireplaces in the shape of ceramic plates on the ground and in the most cases the entrance-positions in the form of ramps or steps. It was possible to combine the solitary buildings to economic entities (entity A-H). Due to the analysis of animal bones by Erich Pucher it was possible to appoint places of settlement where people kept their sheep and cattle. The settlement belongs to the south-eastern area of the "Kalenderberg-Culture", which characterizes an important part of the Eastern Hallstatt Culture with the so-called "Kalenderberg-findings" (pots and special types with typical high-reliefed ornaments out of ceramic-ledges and square ceramic-buttons). Its climax dates to the developed Hallstatt Culture (HaC2/D1, first half of the 7th century till approx. 600 B.C.). The roughly 1000 pieces of ceramic-findings show simularities with the "Westhallstatt" area, the "Lausitz" region and Bohemia.