The hill graves of Babenhausen

In the middle Bronze-Age from the 17th century BC, people were buried in hill-graves. The women were buried with their heads stretched to the east and the men were buried with their heads stretched to the west. That’s where the epoch got its name from.

The people believed in the afterlife and gave the deceased ones various grave goods into the graves. The women mostly got jewellery or kitchen-items and the men got weapons or different tools. It is believed that only wealthy people were buried like that because the grave goods were quite expensive and did not match with the lifestyle of an ordinary farmer.

Later the deceased ones were burned at the stake with the grave goods and were buried an urn.