Grønjægers Høj
Grønjægers Høj or Grønsalen ( German Hill of the Hunter Grøn; King Grøns Hall ) (Ger.) Is one of Denmark's largest megalithic complexes . It is located near Fanefjord Church in the southwest of the Danish island of Møn . Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.
description
That of the people of the funnel cup culture (TBK) about 3500 BC. It is about 100 m long and 10 m wide and is surrounded by 134 curb stones and thus almost completely. In the barren bed about 1.5 m above the surrounding area, there are three small longitudinal chambers about 0.7 m wide and 1.7 m long. Two belong to the oldest type of Urdolmen ( dolmens without access ). The third chamber has a lowered end stone (bottom left in the picture) that allows access. Two of the chambers, built from four bearing stones, no longer have a capstone. The third chamber has a roof-like capstone. No archaeological finds have been made in any of the chambers .
context
A total of 119 large stone graves from the Neolithic period are known on the only 231 km² islands of Møn and Bogø . 38 of them have been preserved and protected. 21 are passage graves of the TBK which between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC originated. The archaeologists estimate that the preserved large stone graves represent only about 10% of those originally built. On Møn and Bogø, more than 500 large stone graves were originally created over a period of only 700 years.
Legend
The name goes back to the legendary King Grøn. In pagan times, around the winter solstice , one could see his revenant , a headless rider with a hunting spear in his hand, at the head of a horde of hunters with blood-drenched spears and a pack of barking dogs. The sound of horns and the clink of swords echoed through the night. The apparitions did not end until the area became Christian.
The Grønsund between the islands of Møn and Falster is said to be named after King Grøn, and the Fanefjord after his beloved wife Fane.
See also
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politikens bog om Danmarks oldtid (= Politikens håndbøger. ). Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 214.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier , Erich Claßen, Thomas Doppler, Britta Ramminger (eds.): Varia neolithica VI. Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual meeting of the North-West German Association for Ancient Research in Schleswig, 9. – 10. October 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , pp. 7-16, here p. 15.
- ↑ Jonna Kjær-Nielsen: Legends and Myths from Fanefjord (Danish) PDF, fortidsmindeguide.dk
Coordinates: 54 ° 53 ′ 47 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 6 ″ E