Gemeinlebarn

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Gemeinlebarn is a cadastral district of the city Traismauer in District St. Pölten (Lower Austria ). It has 669 inhabitants ( as of 2001). The place is dialect also called " Lewing ". The village is located approximately at the southern edge of the western Tulln Basin.

Archaeological finds

The Old High German word Lewer from the former place name Lewary means graves hill. In Gemeinlebarn the best preserved funeral of Austria is the Neolithic Bell Beaker culture has been discovered. It was also found from the BC time around 2300/2200-1600 an important burial site of the early Bronze Age. From 1250 BC Gemeinlebarn was already a village complex of the older phase of the Late Bronze Age urn field culture with houses in post civil engineering. From the richly decorated royal burial mounds of the Hallstatt culture comes magnificently plastic or figural decorated vessels that were painted with red and black color.

In Notgrabungen four frühlatènezeitliche body burials were uncovered in the Maisengasse. It was found in a woman's grave two bird brooches and a mask brooch, a choker with a hollow sheet metal bead, three bracelets, a finger ring, iron hooks for belts chains and five ceramic vessels. On Schneiderweg southeast of the town they came across a mittellatènezeitliche settlement. In a burial group that dates back to the Early La Tène, with round and rectangular grave enclosures iron scabbards, a spear-head, a mask brooch, coupling rings for bridle, ornamented bronze shoe-buckles, a hollow ring and some pottery were discovered.