page_title: Early Germanic culture
section_title: Feddersen Wierde
hierarchical_section_title: Early Germanic culture / Architecture / Feddersen Wierde
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hofmodell Feddersen Wierde, ausgestellt im Niedersächsischen Landesmuseum Hannover, vom Museum übersandt an Benutzer AxelHH zur Verfügung gestellt als PD nach Rückfrage.
context_page_description: Early Germanic culture refers to the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern European elements, the Germanic culture developed out of the Nordic Bronze Age. It came under significant external influence during the Migration Period, particularly from ancient Rome.
  The Germanic peoples eventually overwhelmed the Western Roman Empire, which by the Middle Ages facilitated their conversion from paganism to Christianity and the abandonment of their tribal way of life. Certain traces of early Germanic culture have survived among the Germanic peoples up to the present day.
context_section_description: The best known settlements are the wurts, or warfts in North Germany. The classic site is Feddersen Wierde , near Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Weser. This was inhabited from the first century BC until the fifth century AD, when due to the rising sea level, they probably emigrated to England. A comprehensive archaeological excavation between 1954 and 1963 yielded valuable knowledge about prehistoric settlements in the North Germany
caption: A reconstructed house from Feddersen Wierde,in the Hannover Museum
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