Pömmelte

Pömmelte
Stadtteil of Barby
Coat of arms
Pömmelte Location of Pömmelte within Salzlandkreis
Coordinates: 52°0′N 11°49′E / 52.000°N 11.817°E / 52.000; 11.817Coordinates: 52°0′N 11°49′E / 52.000°N 11.817°E / 52.000; 11.817
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Salzlandkreis
Town	Barby
Area
• Total	12.35 km2 (4.77 sq mi)
Elevation	49 m (161 ft)
Population (2006-12-31)
• Total	660
• Density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	39249
Dialling codes	039298
Vehicle registration	SLK
Website	www.stadt-barby.de/ gem/poemmelte.html

Pömmelte is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Barby. The modern settlement is first documented in 1292 and probably was founded not too long before, probably by Sorbian settlers.

During the Bronze Age, around the late third millennium BC, it was the site of an astronomical observatory with a function similar to Stonehenge, built in a wooden construction. It probably was a ritual center, without a permanent settlement. With radiocarbon dates indicating 2300 B.C. for what appears to be the earliest phase of the ritual center, speculation among anthropologists in 2018 is considering recognition of a cultural tie broadly throughout Europe and the British Isles associating the traditions from which these structures arose to those much earlier, in places such as such as the 7000-year-old Goseck circle in Germany.^[1]

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