Passage grave of Ebendorf

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Floor plan of the grave according to Danneil

The passage grave of Ebendorf was one of the passage graves , with a shape that is otherwise not documented in the entire area of ​​distribution. It was on the Angelhoch , a flat elevation in Ebendorf north of the village of Alt Olvenstedt , in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt . At this point the highway from Alt-Olvenstedt to Ebendorf crosses the A2 today . It dates from the Neolithic Age 3500–2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).

In 1836/37 Pastor Leopold from the neighboring village of Ebendorf excavated the megalithic complex . The excavation report prepared by Johann Friedrich Danneil was published in 1838.

Construction

The system's chamber, designed as a shifted parallelogram , was around nine meters long and 1.25 m wide. It consisted of 17 upright granite blocks . The floor of the chamber was paved with rubble. At the top the chamber was closed with large ceiling stones. An approximately five-meter-long inclined corridor bordered by eight stones led to the chamber, which was closed with a stone on the outside.

The ground floor north-west-south-east oriented system is shifted in plan to a parallelogram . The corridor is set at the same angle as the two end sides (about 45 °). The chamber has its entrance in the south.

The complex was covered by a long oval hill measuring 26 × 9 m.

In 1930, C. Engel suspected a stone border around the hill; however, this information remained unproven.

Finds

There were many crumbling bones mixed with earth in the room. 14 ceramic vessels were still preserved from the additions. Underneath a clay drum . Furthermore, numerous pieces of broken glass, two flint blades and two pieces of petrified wood.

Ceramic belongs to the Bernburg culture . The clay drum represents the Walternienburg type.

More megalithic systems in the area

There are or were still several prehistoric sites in the vicinity, including on the Kleiner Silberberg , the Großer Silberberg and the Pfahlberg .

See also

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific articles 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ISSN  0440-1298 , pp. 92–93.
  • Carl Engel : Pictures from prehistoric times on the middle Elbe. 1. Stone and Bronze Age. Hopfer, Burg 1930, pp. 132-133.
  • Johann Friedrich Danneil : Grave monuments from pre-Christian times. Division of the various grave monuments from pagan times in the Altmark. In: First annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. 1838, pp. 55-56 ( PDF; 4.6 MB ).
  • Ulrich Fischer : The Stone Age graves in the Saale region. Studies on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave and burial forms in Saxony-Thuringia (= prehistoric research. Volume 15). De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, pp. 87, 96, 100, 271.
  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Magdeburg cemeteries and burial places. State capital Magdeburg, City Planning Office Magdeburg, Magdeburg 1998 ( PDF; 6.28 MB ).
  • Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, pp. 7-8 ( online ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 13 ″  E