Great stone graves near birch moor

One of the burial mounds near Birkenmoor (on the L 44)

The dolmen at Birkenmoor (there is another burial mound in the background)

The dolmen at Kuhholzberg

The two long beds at Birkenmoor from the east

48 Neolithic burial mounds , dolmens and long beds (so-called megalithic graves ) around the village of Birkenmoor in the community of Schwedeneck in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein are referred to / summarized as large stone graves near Birkenmoor .

The extraordinarily numerous Neolithic large stone graves that have been preserved around Birkenmoor on the Danish Wohld are now a listed building . Some large stone graves have been preserved in good condition and are clearly visible in the landscape. B .:

• the dolmen at Birkenmoor
• the dolmen at Kuhholzberg
• the long beds at Birkenmoor

The megalithic stone graves at Birkenmoor are also called Birkenmoor + number.

Municipal coat of arms with dolmen

Due to the large number of large stone graves in the area of ​​the Schwedeneck municipality, the municipal council decided to include a stylized dolmen in the municipal coat of arms.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture

literature

• Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 32–35.

Web links

Commons : Great stone graves near Birkenmoor  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information on the former homepage birkenmoor.de: http://www.birkenmoor.de/geschichte-1.html ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) & http://www.birkenmoor.de/geschichte-2. html ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Thomas Witzke : Megalithic graves and menhirs in Schleswig-Holstein at www.strahl.org

Coordinates: 54 ° 26 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 36 ″  E