Draft:Mirga (ancient Slavic settlement)
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Comment: These sources do not mention the settlement at all. Sophisticatedevening🍷(talk) 15:56, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
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Mirga, also known as Miga, Miega, Mocka, Mokka, was a Slavic settlement in what is now the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab (northern Upper Palatinate).
Geography
[edit]The settlement or town is said to have been located on the ridge between the villages Burkhardsreuth, Pichlberg and Barbaraberg. Some also speak of a spatial extension over Eichelberg to Mockersdorf. Geographically, the high plateau slopes steeply to the south. There, the villages of Zettlitz, Schmierhütte and Seitenthal are located. The terrain is also very steep to the northwest. Access to the north and east was blocked by a marshland characterized by the Haidenaab. This meant that the site was easy to defend. In addition, numerous sources of drinking water such as the Neuhauser Quellen near Zettlitz, the small stream in the so-called Miega-Graben, the Hubbach and the Preißacher Mühlbach ensured the water supply and thus greatly facilitated settlement.
Today, many names of local geographical features still remind of this, for example a section of forest also bears the name Miega[1] Apart from countless boulders, there are no obvious remains of this settlement to be found.
History
[edit]Mir in some slavic languages means “peasant community, communal field, communal assembly, masonry or dry stone wall, but also universe, world and peace, peaceful, at peace”[2]
Medieval burial sites were discovered in Barbaraberg in 1972 by chance, which were archeologically investigated afterwards from 1992 until 1995. 297 individuals were able to be identified in 161 graves; some of them buried in wooden coffins and others in bodybags. Almost all of the female corpses were given typical jewelery of the slavic culture of the 9th/10th century, such as S-bow rings.[3]The site of the graves of the Carolingian and Ottonian periods are protected under german law[4]
Findings
[edit]Time and again, small horseshoes and square coins are found "on the Mirga" (preposition used by locals).
Many coins and cuffs from the 20th century, especially from the Nazi era, can also be found by using metal detectors.
References
[edit]- ^ "Miegaberg on BayernAtlas Klassik". atlas.bayern.de. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
- ^ Zenit, Jan (1950). Heimatbuch des Kreises Eschenbach [Homeland book of the District Eschenbach] (in German). Vol. 1. Chronik-Verlag Eschenbach. p. 152.
- ^ Informational plate next to the church on top of the Barbaraberg, Autors: Ralf Schunk, Andreas Peterek; built by the Geocenter KTB in the year 2006
- ^ "LfD List for Speinshart" (PDF).