Great stone graves near Bramstedt
| Great stone graves near Bramstedt | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 22 '56.6 " N , 8 ° 40' 53.1" E | ||
| place | Hagen im Bremischen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves near Bramstedt were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Bramstedt , a town in Hagen in the Bremen district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony . They were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
Grave 1 was about 1.8 km north of the center of Bramstedt, directly west of the road to Wittstedt near a gravel pit . The exact location of the second grave is not known.
description
Grave 1 was destroyed around 1825 according to Hans Müller-Brauel . In 1927 Ernst Sprockhoff found eleven stones lying around in disorder at his location, which no longer allowed any conclusions to be drawn about the original appearance of the complex. The current state is unclear. No more detailed information is available about the second grave.
literature
- Hans Müller-Brauel: The prehistoric monuments of the Geestemünde district. In: Annual Report of the Men of the Morning Star. Volume 11, 1908/09 (1910), p. 166.
- 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. 8.
- Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs: The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957, plate 50.