Gallery grave Gießen-Kleinlinden
The gallery grave Gießen-Kleinlinden was a possible megalithic burial site from the Neolithic Age near Kleinlinden , a district of Gießen ( Hesse ). According to a report in the back of the forest near Kleinlinden during forest work in the winter of 1882/83 a group of "barrows" found a now lost door stone . This had a length of 1.6 m and a width of 0.9 m. Only three quarters of the stone was preserved, the broken fragments remained at the site. The perforated door stone is the only indication of a possible gallery grave. No other finds are known from this location.
literature
- Third annual report of the Upper Hessian Association for Local History. Roth, Gießen 1883, p. 123 ( PDF; 41.4 MB ).
- Ulrich Fischer : To the collective graves in Hesse and Thuringia. In: Nassau Annals. Volume 79, 1968, p. 18.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , p. 433.
- Werner Jorns : Inventory of the prehistoric site monuments and finds of the city and district of Gießen (= inventory of the ground monuments. Volume 5). Association of friends of antiquity in the Darmstadt administrative district, Darmstadt 1976, p. 25
- Otto Kunkel : Upper Hesse's prehistoric antiquities. Marburg 1926, p. 29.
- 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. 291.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements and the gallery graves of Western Germany. Bonn 1966, p. 432.