Cemetery of Rössen

The Rössen burial ground was a Neolithic burial ground in Rössen, a district of Leuna in the Saalekreis district. Between 1879 and 1890, more than 100 cremation and body graves were found here, which mainly belong to the Rössen and Gatersleben cultures. A single grave belonged to the linear pottery, another possibly to the Baalberg culture. The Rössen burial ground is thus the largest Neolithic burial ground in Central Germany. The grave inventories prompted Alfred Götze to write the first description of the Rössen culture in 1900, which made the burial ground the eponymous site. A little further south, further graves and settlement remains were found in 1918, which, in addition to the two cultures mentioned, could be assigned to the Stichbandkeramik, the Baalberg culture and the Salzmünde culture.

The burial ground was located on the western high bank of the Saale southeast of the historic centre of Rössen and is now completely built over by the villa settlement of Neu Rössen. It stretched roughly from today's Merseburger Straße to the Leuna city park. A few hundred metres to the north is the late Neolithic burial mound of Rössen, which was investigated in 1918 and 1925, and only a little south of it, directly on the Merseburg–Leipzig-Leutzsch railway, is the Rössen Wall, on the edges of which further Neolithic graves were discovered in 1915 in the run-up to the construction of the railway line.

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