Great stone graves near Behrensbrook
| Great stone graves near Behrensbrook Royal tomb (grave 5) | |||
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| Coordinates | Behrensbrook 1 , Behrensbrook 2 , Behrensbrook 3 , Behrensbrook 4 , Behrensbrook 5 | ||
| place | Neudorf-Bornstein OT Behrensbrook , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 99-103 | ||
The megalithic graves near Behrensbrook are a group of five megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Behrensbrook , a district of Neudorf-Bornstein in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 99-103. Grave 5 (Sprockhoff number 103) is also known as the royal grave .
location
The graves are located to the west of Behrensbrook in a wooded area, directly on the municipality border with Altenhof . Grave 1 is the northernmost. Grave 2 is 60 m south of this, grave 3 90 m southwest and grave 4 90 m east. Grave 5 is 100 m southeast of grave 2.
There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity : 1.7 km south-southwest lies the large stone grave Rothenstein , 1.7 km west the converted large stone grave Hohenkamp and 1.8 km west the large stone grave near Altenhof . The destroyed megalithic stone graves were located 1.2 km south-southeast near Neudorf-Bornstein .
description
Grave 1
This facility has a north-west-south-east oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 32 m and a width of 6 m. Numerous stones have been preserved from the enclosure. The southwest long side is almost complete. The north-east and north-west sides are a bit poorer and all stones are missing on the north-east side. The burial chamber is a little west of the center of the bed. It is a small, diagonally to the bed, northeast-southwest oriented extended dolmen with a length of 1.8 m and a width of 0.7 m. The two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, the south-western end stone and the cap stone have been preserved. The northeast capstone is missing. The capstone has a length of 2.1 m, a width of 0.7 m and a thickness of 0.9 m. The access to the chamber is on the southwest side.
Grave 2
This facility has an east-west oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 38 m and a width of 6.5 m. Numerous stones are still preserved from the enclosure, especially the north side is in good condition. The burial chamber is in the eastern part of the bed. It is a north-south oriented extended dolmen. There are still two pairs of wall stones on the long sides and the two end stones on the narrow sides. The cap stones are missing. The southern capstone is 0.6 m deeper than its counterpart. This is where the access to the chamber was located.
Grave 3
This complex has a heavily destroyed east-west oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 67 m and a width of 6 m. Most of the surrounding stones are missing, only a few are still preserved at the western end of the bed. A pit in the eastern part of the bed marks the location of the destroyed burial chamber. There are three stones in it, of which it is unclear whether they belong to the chamber or to the enclosure. The dimensions and type of the chamber can no longer be determined.
Grave 4
This poorly preserved complex has an east-west oriented mound bed with a length of about 17 m and a width of about 6 m. There are several stones scattered on it, which do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the original appearance of the complex.
Grave 5
This facility has an approximately north-south oriented megalithic bed with a length of at least 17 m and a width of about 5 m. Several surrounding stones are scattered around. A burial chamber cannot be seen.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 29.