Dolmen of Büdelsdorf
In Büdelsdorf there are two great stone graves worth seeing. The first grave is called Urdolmen in Ernst Sprockhoff's Atlas , the second is an enlarged dolmen discovered later . Büdelsdorf is a town in Schleswig-Holstein on the Kiel Canal , directly north of Rendsburg . The megalithic systems were built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as plants of the funnel cup culture (TBK). Sprockhoff number 155
The Urdolmen
The dolmen was discovered in 1949 in what is now the city area in a heavily plowed burial mound . After the investigation by M. Peters, the grave was moved about 300 m to the south in the park on the high bank of the Eider ( Lage ). It is an ancient dolmen with six bearing stones. The long sides are made up of two unequal pairs of stones. The single capstone is probably modern, it is not mentioned by Ernst Sprockhoff . The clear width of the chamber is 1.85 m × 0.70 m × 0.80 m. In the "Atlas of Germany's Megalithic Tombs" the Urdolmen is listed as "Sprockhoff 155".
The rectangular dolmen
South of the road to Borgstedt, on what is now an industrial park, there was a burial ground with seven long beds and five burial mounds . The graves were probably dug by the inhabitants of the nearby earthworks of Büdelsdorf . Today only one street name, "An den Reesen Betten", reminds of the former necropolis . The graves were examined in detail before the industrial area was established. Among other things, the remains of an enlarged dolmen were found . The burial chamber was reconstructed with original stones in the direct vicinity of the roundabout between Büdelsdorf and Borgstedt ( location ).
Large stone grave with modern sculpture at the roundabout
Reconstructed large stone grave
See also
literature
- Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein . Offa 42, 1985, p. 70.
- M. Peters: A dolmen near Büdelsdorf, Rendsburg district. In: Offa. Volume 9, 1951, pp. 1-2.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany - Schleswig-Holstein . Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 41–42.
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