Prehistory

Chotěbuz-Podobora was occupied two times – first by people of the so-called Lusatian Culture at the end of the Bronze Age and later by the Slavs during the Early Middle Ages. 

What is Lusatian Culture and when it is supposed to have existed?

Lusatian Culture has developed during the Late Bronze Age, existed in the Final Bronze Age as well, and on some territories even survived until the Early Iron Age, which has also been called the Hallstatt Period. The Hallstatt Period is named after the Austrian site of Hallstatt. The hillfort of Chotěbuz-Podobora was part of a very vivid culture, which in Silesia underwent a 900-year-long development.

How was it with the Lusatian Culture at Chotěbuz?

People of the Lusatian Culture have inhabited Chotěbuz, above all its acropolis, for the first time in the Final Bronze Age at the turn between the 10th and 9th centuries BC. At the beginning of the Early Iron Age, at about the end of the 8th century BC, the settlement was captured for the first time. After this big turn a new rampart fortification was built here, which was still extended later. A hillfort with outer baileys has developed. At the end of the Hallstatt Period in the mid-5th century BC, Chotěbuz-Podobora was burnt down again. The hillfort was then abandoned until the arrival of the Slavs.