Malente burial chamber
| Malente burial chamber | |||
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 The (reconstructed) burial chamber Malente from the west |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 '50.2 " N , 10 ° 34' 13.5" E | ||
| place | Malente , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 and 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Dimensions | 5 * 2.5 m | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | - | ||
The Neolithic burial chamber Malente is a dolmen in Malente in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . The reconstructed large stone grave is located south of the L 174 from Malente to Eutin -Sielbeck. It is meridional , has a length of about five meters and a width of about 2.5 m. The megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr.
The passage grave consists of ten large boulders , eight bearing stones and two cap stones. Two of the three bearing stones on the two long sides support the two large capstones - two bearing stones have no capstone (so that a lateral access to the burial chamber remains); in the south and in the north an end stone each closes off the narrow sides.
At a distance of about four meters around the large stone grave there is a circle of small boulders, which are supposed to represent the circumference of a mound of earth that usually covers megalithic structures .
history
The large stone grave was discovered in the 1920s on the Pennebusch parcel (near the “ Holsteinische Schweiz ” hotel ) when a site was investigated where pieces of flint that had burned out during fieldwork were discovered. In the middle of the area was a rectangular clay area with remains of a stone pavement, but no large stones. Aside from the long and narrow sides of the clay surface, large stones were found deeper in the ground - from this it was concluded that trenches had been dug in which stones from the grave were sunk in order to clear the grave. The stones found were identified as carrier stones - none as cap stones. The stones were recovered and used for the reconstruction of the large stone grave at the current location.
See also
literature
- Gustav Peters - Malente burial chamber - in: Blätter für Heimatkunde - Eutin (supplement to the Ostholsteiner Anzeiger ); Eutin 1959, p. 89
