Large stones from Stenum

Large stones from Stenum Great stone grave stenum
Coordinates	53 ° 4 '29.8 "  N , 8 ° 33' 18.2"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '29.8 "  N , 8 ° 33' 18.2"  E
place	Ganderkesee , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence	3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no.	930

Layout of the facility; left: reconstruction, right: today's condition

The Great Stones of Stenum , also known as the Stenum large stone grave , are a Neolithic passage grave with the Sprockhoff number.  930. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). 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.

location

It is located under an oak tree on a small hill on the Am Hünengrab road in the village of Stenum north of Ganderkesee , near the K 335 in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony .

description

The disturbed , east-west-oriented chamber is the northeasternmost Emsland chamber in Germany. The stone chamber, 22.5 meters long and 1.8 meters wide, lies coaxially in the presumably oval enclosure, of which only 13 curbs of over 40 (estimated) have survived. All 30 bearing stones have been preserved, ten of the twelve cap stones are missing. The presumed length of the enclosure is about 28 meters and its width about seven meters. The three meter long and one meter wide entrance is on the south side and is slightly off-center.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• The complex is on the street of the megalithic culture

literature

• Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 104-105.
• Mamoun Fansa : Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany 31 . Stuttgart 1995, p. 147.
• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 130.

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Stenum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Megalithic Portal: Stenum stone grave
• strahlen.org: Large stone grave "Stenum", Stenum, Delmenhorst
• steinzeugen.de: The big stones from Stenum
• cruptorix.nl: Stenum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15