Gallery grave Neuhaus
| Gallery grave Neuhaus | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 44 '44.8 " N , 8 ° 43' 12.3" E | ||
| place | Paderborn OT Neuhaus Castle , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The Neuhaus gallery grave is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic Wartberg culture near Schloss Neuhaus , a district of Paderborn ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) , which has only survived in remains and is not visible above ground .
location
The grave is located in Neuhaus Castle on the parcel "An den Tallwiesen".
Research history
The grave was discovered in 1844. In the same year the first stones were removed and used to build the Tallhof. In 1918 more stones were used to build a war memorial . The remains of the facility were archaeologically examined in 1949 under the direction of WR Lange and in 1983 under the direction of Klaus Günther .
Inconsistent location information sometimes led to the assumption of two graves, even though only one actually exists. The facility described here was therefore listed in older literature as the Neuhaus II gallery grave. The Neuhaus I grave must be deleted.
description
architecture
The plant is oriented southwest-northeast. It has a total length of 27.5 m, a width of 2.6 m; the original height is unknown. Remnants of a mound could be detected. The burial chamber has an inner length of 26 m and an inner width of 1.6 m. How deep the chamber was sunk into the ground can no longer be reconstructed. The chamber was built from different types of rock. A boulder , the remains of which is still preserved, was used as the south-western end stone . Furthermore, remains of a wall stone made of Eggesandstein were found, which is still preserved up to a height between 0.3 m and 0.5 m and which is wedged with smaller boulders. Remnants of the chamber pavement made of limestone slabs have also been preserved. In the middle, the chamber is divided by a transverse plate and a small threshold. It is not entirely certain where the original entrance to the chamber was, but the most likely is the south-eastern long side.
The building materials for the chamber came from very different distances. Erratic boulders occur in the vicinity. The next limestone deposit, however, is only 5 km away and the next deposit of Eggesandstein is 16 km away. The material requirement is estimated at around 160.1 t.
Burials
During the excavations, only a single fragment of a long bone was recovered, which is now lost.
Additions
No additions were discovered during the excavations.
literature
- Klaus Günther : To the Neolithic stone chamber tombs of Neuhaus Castle near Paderborn. In: Excavations and finds in Westphalia-Lippe , Volume 3, 1985, pp. 1-7.
- Hugo Hoffmann: Status and tasks of prehistoric and early historical research in Westphalia. In: Westphalian research. Volume 1, 1938, p. 213.
- 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. 265.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements and the gallery graves of Western Germany. Bonn 1966, pp. 452-453.
- August Stieren : The prehistoric monuments of the Büren district. In: Communications of the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia. Volume 7, 1922, p. 27 ( 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.
- Andreas Vüllers: The so-called prehistoric "Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages". In: Westfälische Zeitschrift - magazine for patriotic history and antiquity. Volume 60, 1902, p. 184 ( PDF; 20.1 MB ).
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Neuhaus Castle Gallery Grave (2)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Günther: On the Neolithic stone chamber tombs of Neuhaus Castle near Paderborn.