Photo: Naturpark Kaunergrat

Brandopferplatz Piller Sattel

Wenns, Tyrol

The culture on the Piller began in the Bronze Age: animals were sacrificed to gods on stone altars. In the younger Iron Age, mainly material offerings (jewelry, coins, ceramics, fibulae, and weapons) were intended to appease the gods. With the spread of Christianity, the cult site came to an end. The Archaeological Museum Fliess exhibits the finds from the Bronze Age-Iron Age sacrificial site and Roman cult site on the Piller Sattel and the Hallstatt-era bronze hoard from Fliess. Hike from Piller on the KULT UR WEG to the prehistoric sacrificial site and to the nearby "Gachen Blick", from which one enjoys a unique, interesting, and far-reaching view. The sacrificial site was excavated and developed by the Institute for Classical Archaeology of the University of Innsbruck between 1992 and 1998.