Great stone graves of Deymanns Mühle I – IV
| Great stone graves of Deymanns Mühle I – IV Klein Stavern II – V | |||
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 Great stone graves Deymanns Mühle (front Deymanns Mühle I) |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 46 '23.1 " N , 7 ° 25' 47" E | ||
| place | Klein Stavern, Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 848-851 | ||
The large stone graves Deymanns Mühle I – IV (also called Klein Stavern II – V) are four neighboring, heavily disturbed Neolithic passage graves with the Sprockhoff numbers 848–851. They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And are megalithic systems 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.
The name comes from the nearby oil mill of the Deymann family. In 1691 Geerdt Deymann took over the oil mill together with his wife Anna Conen.
They are located east of Klein Stavern in a forest just before the Nordradde (river), north of the village road to Klein Berßen in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony .
Deymanns Mühle I, Klein Stavern II
The westernmost system (Sprockhoff No. 848) consists of the remains of a north-south oriented chamber. Many Emsland chambers run in an east-west direction, with the entrance on the south side. Seven bearing stones, including a pair of keystones and a capstone measuring 3.5 × 2.2 × 1.2 meters, have been preserved.
Deymanns Mühle II, Klein Stavern III
The unusually small chamber (three by two meters) has only two cap stones and, along with a facility in Werpeloh, is the smallest passage grave in the Emsland (Sprockhoff No. 849). It shows clear traces of destruction. The capstones were rolled off. The western bearing stone was overturned and has rows of boreholes. Here an attempt was made to split the stone with wedges .
Deymann's Mill III, Klein Stavern IV
Seven meters further lie the remains of an approximately seven-meter-long chamber (Sprockhoff no. 850), of which both keystones and nine bearing stones are mostly in situ . The only capstone is in the chamber today.
Deymanns Mill IV, Klein Stavern V
By far the largest example is the eastern one (Sprockhoff no. 851), a "giant bed", of which most of the stones are missing today. In the Emsland there are otherwise only "Hünen Betten" in Sögel (Sprockhoff no. 832) and Groß Berßen (Sprockhoff no. 862). The approximately 33.0 × 7.0 meter stone setting surrounds a well-preserved central chamber of approximately 6.0 × 3.0 meters. Two of the once eleven bearing stones and one of the four cap stones are missing. A fragment of the fourth capstone lies next to it and has drilled holes. Other stones with numerous holes lie within the former enclosure. In the western part of the enclosure you can guess the original earthfill.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The facilities are part of the Route of the Megalithic Culture .
literature
- Ute Bartelt: Own construction method - large stone graves in western Lower Saxony. In: Archeology in Germany. Volume 4/2009, pp. 26-29 ( online ).
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 61-62.
- Hery A. Lauer: In: Archaeological monuments between Weser and Ems Oldenburg (Oldenburger Forschungen, NF 13; Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland, Supplement 34 (2000)). Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1992, p. 252/3
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 99-100.
Web links
- Deymanns Mühle I: description, plan and pictures
- Deymanns Mühle II: description, plan and pictures
- Deymanns Mühle III: description, plan and pictures
- Deymanns Mühle IV: description, plan and pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15