In case of works in Mainz, Germany, are workers on a mass grave from the 19th century. Century encountered. It was probably over a thousand skeletons, said Jens Dolata, an archaeologist at the Directorate General for Cultural heritage Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on Tuesday. The discovery, about the first of the SWR reported was made in the district of Hartberg-münch field.
According to initial investigations, it could be the deceased French and German soldiers who fell about 200 years ago, after the battle of Nations, Leipzig the typhoid epidemic to the victim. The dead, according to Dolata in a plurality of rows would have been buried. Some of the skeletons were severely damaged.
At the battle of Nations in Leipzig in 1813, Nakitbahis soldiers were made up of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden on the one hand, and the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte. After the defeat of Napoleon fled, survivors soldiers to Mainz and dragged there typhoid fever. Thousands of people died, mostly French, but also Mainz.
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After a siege of the city in 1814 by German and Russian soldiers gave the French the Governor Charles Antoine Morand, finally, and surrendered. The troops but were able to negotiate a free deduction.
The current site had an Association to protect planned according to the figures, a shooting range. Now to find a solution for the site. Whether in the long term, a freeze in the construction is to be obtained, so that the archaeologists can dig to the body, is not yet clear. to not disturb
To the peace of the Dead, would have to stay all the bones in the ground, said Dolata. “All the skeletons umzubetten, is actually not possible.”
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