Great stone graves near Apensen

The large stone graves near Apensen were three megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Apensen in the Lower Saxony district of Stade . They were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The three graves were close together. One was on the tuning hill near Apensen.

description

The graves were quite similar to each other and all had an oval mound, which probably each enclosed a three-bay burial chamber . The grave on the Stimmberg was initially bought by Count Richelmann in order to preserve it. However, his heirs sold it to a bricklayer who crushed the stones. The other two graves had already been destroyed in 1838/39. In the 1890s only the mound fillings and a single stone on a grave with a length of 2 m, a width of 1.16 m and a thickness of 0.6 m remained.

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 162 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 28.
• Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 63 ( online ).