Great stone graves near Dahlem
| Great stone graves near Dahlem | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 12 '26.7 " N , 10 ° 45' 6.9" E | ||
| place | Dahlem , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 712 | ||
The large stone graves near Dahlem were two grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the community of Dahlem in the district of Lüneburg , Lower Saxony , of which only one still exists today. It bears the Sprockhoff number 712.
location
The preserved grave 1 is located about 550 m northeast of the center of Dahlem, only a few meters west of the country road in the direction of the Harmstorf district. The eight megalithic stone graves near Harmstorf were located nearby, but today they have been completely destroyed.
description
The preserved grave 1
The complex has a rather large north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber, which for the most part is still hidden deep in the ground. Five capstones are still clearly visible: two in the southeast and three in the northwest. There is a gap between these two groups. Another capstone was originally located there. Only four wall stones protrude just above the earth: the end stone on the south-eastern narrow side, the adjoining wall stone on the north-eastern long side and the two adjoining wall stones on the south-western long side. Numerous other stones lying around are probably not parts of the grave, but reading stones from the adjacent field.
The destroyed grave 2
Only sparse information is available about the destroyed grave. It had several capstones, the largest of which was 8 feet (about 2.3 m) long , 5 feet (about 1.5 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) thick . The smallest was 5 feet (about 1.5 m) long, 3 feet (about 0.9 m) wide and 2 feet (about 0.6 m) high.
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.
- Franz Krüger: Megalithic graves in the Bleckede, Dannenberg, Lüneburg and Winsen ad Luhe districts. In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory , Volume 1, 1927, p. 8.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 140 ( 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 , pp. 45, 49.