Brenken gallery grave

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Brenken gallery grave
Gallery grave Brenken (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Coordinates 51 ° 34 '47.6 "  N , 8 ° 36' 45.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '47.6 "  N , 8 ° 36' 45.8"  E
place Büren OT Brenken , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

The gallery grave Brenken is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic Wartberg culture near Brenken , a district of Büren in the Paderborn district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

location

The grave is in a field east of Brenken. 3.2 km to the east are the megalithic graves near Wewelsburg .

Research history

The grave was first mentioned in 1855 by Wilhelm Engelbert Giefers , who lists it as one of several gallery graves in the vicinity of the Wewelsburg . In 2008, during a special excavation, a grave that was completely buried in the ground was discovered, which may be the one mentioned by Giefers. Since stone blocks were also found during the construction of a barn in the southeast, it was assumed that a second gallery grave could be located here. However, this could not be confirmed by geomagnetic prospecting, georadar or search cuts.

description

Giefers did not give an exact description of the location of the facility near Brenken. There is also no information on orientation, dimensions and the exact structure. He only mentions that in 1855 a grave ( gallery grave Wewelsburg I ) was discovered near Wewelsburg , which had a length of about 50 feet (about 16 m; actually 19.5 m total length or 16.2 m inner chamber length) and that all other listed graves including the gallery grave Brenken are similar to this. Giefers also states that human bones were found in all of the graves; he does not write anything about grave goods.

The excavation from 2008 showed a comparatively well-preserved, northwest-southeast oriented system with a length of 31.5 m and an outer width between 2.3 m and 2.5 m and an inner width between 1.7 m and 1, 9 m. The chamber was built from limestone slabs . A collapsed cover plate 1.2 m long and 0.2 m thick was also found. No wall panels were found on the north-western narrow side. This is possibly where the original access to the chamber is. Few human bones were found. Additions (such as ceramics) were not discovered.

literature

  • Wilhelm Engelbert Giefers : History of the Wewelsburg and the Bishop Theodor von Fürstenberg. Paderborn 1855, p. 12.
  • Wilhelm Engelbert Giefers: History of the castle and rule Wevelsburg. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity. Volume 22, 1962, p. 333 ( PDF; 16.2 MB ).
  • Hugo Hoffmann: Status and tasks of prehistoric and early historical research in Westphalia. In: Westphalian research. Volume 1, 1938, p. 213.
  • Hans-Otto Pollmann : The gallery grave of Büren-Brenken - rediscovered? In: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe. 2012 (2013), pp. 38–41 ( online ).
  • Kerstin Schierhold : Studies on the Hessian-Westphalian megalithic. Research status and perspectives in a European context (= Münster contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology. Volume 6). Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89646-284-8 , p. 255.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements and the gallery graves of Western Germany. Bonn 1966, p. 446.
  • August Stieren : The prehistoric monuments of the Büren district. In: Communications of the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia. Volume 7, 1922, p. 18 ( PDF; 28 MB ).
  • August Stieren: The big stone boxes of Westphalia. In: Westphalia. Volume 13, 1927, p. 10.
  • August bulls: Westphalia. Neolithic. In: Max Ebert (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte. Volume 14. Uckermark - Cypriot loop needle. DeGruyter, Berlin 1929, p. 287.

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