Great stone graves near Brockhimbergen
| Great stone graves near Brockhimbergen | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
| place | Himbergen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 787-789 | ||
The large stone graves near Brockhimbergen were four grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Brockhimbergen in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony, belonging to the municipality of Himbergen . The graves were described by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff in 1846 . At this point a grave had already been destroyed. The remaining three graves, described and drawn in more detail by Estorff, were destroyed in the second half of the 19th century. These three systems have the Sprockhoff numbers 787–789.
location
Graves 1 and 2 were located east of the Kollendorf residential area belonging to Brockhimbergen. There was another grave nearby, which had already been completely destroyed when von Estorff was taken. Grave 3 was north of this, east of the path from Kollendorf to Himbergen and south of the Röbbelbach.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 had a north-east-south-west oriented barren bed with a length of 22 m and a width of 6 m. The stone enclosure was still more or less completely preserved when von Estorff took the picture, but some stones had already overturned. The burial chamber was in the southwestern half of the megalithic bed. It had a length of about 4.3 m and a width of 1.8 m. It had five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. These were all in situ in 1846 . Only two of the capstones were left that were still resting on the wall stones. Several more were already missing. It seems to have been a large dolmen .
Grave 2
The second grave had a north-east-south-west oriented mound bed with a length of 36 m and a width of 7 m. The enclosure was still quite well preserved in 1846. In the central and north-eastern area it was still complete, but in the south-western third it already had larger gaps. The burial chamber, also located in the south-western part, was already badly damaged. Their length was 8 m. Only the north-eastern end stone and the three adjoining wall stones on the south-eastern long side were preserved. The exact type of grave cannot be determined with certainty, but due to the size of the chamber it must have been a large dolmen or a passage grave.
Grave 3
Grave 3 possessed a north-south oriented mound, the exact dimensions of which could no longer be determined due to the poor state of preservation. Von Estorff stated the length to be 16 m and the width to be 5 m. The stone enclosure was already showing major damage. Six stones remained on the western long side, three on the eastern long side and two stones on the southern narrow side. The burial chamber had a length of 8.5 m and a width of 1.8 m. The chamber was already badly damaged. It still had five wall stones on the western long side, three on the eastern long side, the southern end stone was present. In the middle of the chamber a single narrow stone lay across the chamber. This was either a division of the burial chamber or a fallen capstone. The exact type of grave cannot be determined with certainty, but due to the size of the chamber it must have been a large dolmen or a passage grave.
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
- 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. 69.
