Heringsberg stone grave

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Heringsberg stone grave Ihringsbreite, large stone grave Grimschleben 1
Great stone grave Heringsberg.jpg
Heringsberg stone grave (Saxony-Anhalt)
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Coordinates 51 ° 49 '38.3 "  N , 11 ° 47'25.5"  E
place Nienburg (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

The Heringsberg large stone grave or Grimschleben 1 large stone grave (also Ihringsbreite ) is a Neolithic megalithic complex . It belongs to the large dolmen type and is located east of Bernburg near Nienburg-Grimschleben in the "Stone Age Latdorf" (between the Saale and the L73), which consists of several large stone graves and burial mounds . With the facilities in the district of Köthen , the ramp box in Schortewitz and the facilities in the far north of Thuringia, this is the southernmost group of large stone graves in eastern Central Europe.

In 1729, when they began to remove the herring mountain, which is still 10 m high and 70 m in diameter, the large stone grave was uncovered. Finds were probably recovered in the process, but they have not been preserved. This gives rise to a problem with the chronological classification of the megalithic complex, so that in the context of other constructions of the Stone Age landscape one can assume a funnel-beaker age.

Floor plan based on the excavation of 1729. Caspar Abel : Teutsche und Sächsische Alterthümer , 1730

Due to the flat construction and the fact that the grave is partially filled with earth, the end of the unusually large dolmen cannot be clearly recognized. Six bearing stones and at least five cap stones have been preserved.

See also

literature

  • Caspar Abel : Teutsche and Saxon antiquities, the Teutschen, and Saxony, ancient history, and ancestors, names, origins, and fatherland, trains, and wars ... From the best writings and legal documents ... presented and ... explained, but specialty the high tribe, the royal ... house of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, executed until our time ... including a Lower Saxon clock-old Chronick that has never been printed. Part 2, Braunschweig 1730 ( online version ).
  • Wilhelm Albert von Brunn : Knowledge and care of the ground monuments in Anhalt. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 41/42, 1958, pp. 28-71.
  • Wilhelm Alber von Brunn: The Bernburg burial mounds. Its history and its significance for the vertical stratigraphy of the late Neolithic. In: Prehistoric Journal. Volume 52, 1977, pp. 4-27.
  • Fabian Gall: Stone Age Landscape Latdorf . Small booklets on archeology in Saxony-Anhalt 1. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2003, ISBN 978-3-910010-70-3 .

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