Duhnen

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Cuxhaven ( dunes ) is a resort town on the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony and is part of the metropolitan area of Cuxhaven. Cuxhaven is located west of the core city of Cuxhaven and is one of the tourist centers in Cuxland.

Tourism

Cuxhaven is one of the most important tourist destinations of Lower Saxony on the Wadden Sea and is dominated by hotels, guesthouses, villas, apartment buildings and facilities catering and a water park. Cuxhaven is a starting point of the Watt wagon rides and mudflats to the island Neuwerk. The beach is very flat, so that swimming is almost impossible even at high tide. North-east of Cuxhaven is the district of Cuxhaven, east Stickenbüttel southwest lies Sahlenburg. Cuxhaven offers high quality hotels and restaurants, and is considered slightly more expensive than the neighboring resorts Dosen and Sahlenburg, the more likely to have the reputation of family beach resorts. Nevertheless, it is also found in Cuxhaven affordable family-run guest houses, campsites and holiday apartments. A major attraction is the traditionally held Duhner Watts race, a horse race in the mud.

Townscape

The center Duhnens located on the streets at the village fountain and Duhner beach road. Here individual buildings can be found next multistory functional hotel, restaurant and commercial buildings in the style of the 1970s and 1980s in the seaside resort style of the first decade of the 20th century. Also upscale hotel industry has settled on the Duhner beach road near the road at the village well. In south-west multi-storey apartment buildings were built in the area of the swimming pool since the 1980s, while larger hotels and upmarket can also be found in the direction Dosen at the Cuxhaven road with the Seelust and the Hotel Sternhagen. Here, visitors find camping facilities. The hinterland is dominated by single-family homes Duhnens in which partially also apartments are rented.

View from W

On the dike of Cuxhaven towards Dosen

Geest cliff at the edge of the heath Duhner

Traffic

The Duhner center is partially blocked or restricted traffic for general traffic. There is a bus service into the center of Cuxhaven, where is the nearest railway station. Before you get to Greater parking for day visitors were created.

Attractions

Grave mound Twellberg

The name Twellberg ( Twin Mountain ), the three -meter-high hill due to a second hill, the beginning of the 20th century, the cultivation fell victim. In the 17th century the two hills were (given in the documents even with a height of five meters ) controversial demarcation between the peasantry and Cuxhaven Sahlenburg. In 1948 onwards, excavation, the stone packing a tree coffin and the remains of which were found by Dietwald Brandt. In addition to the cremated remains were as grave goods, two bracelets, a finger ring fragment, a knife, a needle and a bronze belt hump. The Middle Bronze Age (around 1200 BC), according to findings here, a woman was buried.

Ring Wall At The Cemetery

Located in the flat Geest area, the terrain still easily recognizable ring Wall At The Cemetery (formerly Jewish Cemetery) has an inner diameter of around 40 meters. The system consists of a 1.2 meter high main wall and preserved - separated by a berm - a much smaller overcast with vorgelagertem Sohlgraben. The latter two are only the north-west and south of the system to recognize and to have declined in the other areas of agricultural use of adjacent parcels to the victim. Originally the main wall had an east-facing access, but this was closed during the 20th century. In the immediate vicinity as well as in the interior of the ring wall there are several hills which are still preserved in the field in varying degrees. Your good state of preservation owes the rampart of a late onset of conversion of Duhner coastal strip in farmland. This was reluctant obviously the great effort of reclamation of this land parcel. In addition, the Duhner ring wall was already recognized in the 1930s as a natural monument.

A first archaeological investigation learned the system in 1905 by the prehistorians Carl Schuch Hardt, who measured the earthwork and the time on the ground still visible door area to the east was exposing. With this measure, the documentation is now largely lost, he detected a Torgasse of 2.5-2.8 meters wide, which was flanked on both sides by Fundamentgräbchen with traces vertically adjusted post. In addition, the remains of a horizontally laid on Wall base wooden beam structure were recorded. Archaeological finds not came to light, which is why Schuchardt dated the ring wall using comparison findings in Saxon period (ca. 6th century ).

Doubt at this time approach led to the establishment of a joint project of the Institute of Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Tübingen and the Archaeological Heritage of the town Cuxhaven. In the course of the ring wall and its environment in several campaigns between 2001 and 2009 were first extensively explored archaeologically and scientifically. The results showed that the rampart was largely built of stacked heath sods. Evidence supporting wooden fittings, such as Schuchardt had documented it, were not found. One of the surprising results of the investigations include above all the determined age of the plant. So was the scientific dating of the organic constituents of a thin layer at the wall base, which reflects the old ground surface just before the construction of the ring wall, an age of about 3500 years. Culture History corresponds to an erection of the ring wall at the transition from the early to the older Nordic Bronze Age.

The actual function of the Erdwerkes could not be determined. Traces of a Bronze Age structures inside were not found so far. Whether this, as well as the general fund poverty, for example, only a temporary use of the facility - such as a meeting place - close can be, must remain open.

As part of the new research, however, were not only the ring wall itself, but also the archaeological investigation of further archaeological monuments of the area in the center of interest. This was repeated, more periodic use of space are detected. So were found in the interior of the ring wall numerous flint artefacts and ceramics, which thus occupy a long use of space already in the middle and late Neolithic and before the establishment of the rampart. The most striking findings here, however, raised originally two smaller hills from, of which only one remains today. This probably contained the remains of a funeral pyre, which was BC created in the 2nd or 1st century on the earth's surface and then überhügelt with heather sods. This is quite remarkable, since this form of burial was for the later pre-Roman Iron Age in the area east of the Weser otherwise unknown. The research of another, belonging to a group located west of the ring wall hill yielded a cremation burial, which must be submitted in the same time horizon. Along with the Bronze Age large grave mound Twellberg northeast of the ring wall (fire grave; . 13th/12th century BC) as well as a fire pit grave, which was introduced around the time of the Nachbestattung in the studied interior hills, thus a lasting several centuries of use of after still prominent in the field ramparts and their environment to quantify as a burial ground.

In addition, could the already exposed by Schuchardt Torgasse the ring Walls - despite the discrepancy between the 1905 Oval documented, but today circular appearing plant - located exactly in the center, systematically investigated and hence the earlier excavation results are confirmed in detail. Samples taken from the collected remains of Postholes samples are found by a scientific age determination in the foreseeable future a more precise dating of the gate.

Location

In the south of Cuxhaven, in the pasture directly behind the dike one branching from the dune road dirt road leads through the ring wall. The grave hill next to it can be seen from afar.

History

Until 1937 belonged Cuxhaven - Cuxhaven as - to the land of Hamburg.