Great stone graves near Dannigkow

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The megalithic graves near Dannigkow were four or five megalithic Neolithic graves near Dannigkow , a district of Gommern in the district of Jerichower Land , Saxony-Anhalt . All of them were probably destroyed in the 18th or 19th century.

location

Grave 1 was right on the outskirts of Dannigkow am Anger, on the right side of the road to Kressau and Dornburg . Grave 2 was at the Dümmersche gravel works. Graves 3–5 were near grave 1 near Creßau on the left side of the road to Dornburg.

Research history

Four of the enclosures (No. 1, 3, 4 and 5) were documented for the first time by Justus Christianus Thorschmidt , pastor in Plötzky near Gommern at the beginning of the 18th century . Joachim Gottwalt Abel , who was pastor in Möckern between 1755 and 1806, took over his information . He left only handwritten notes on this, which were published by Ernst Herms in 1928 . The graves themselves had already been completely cleared when Herms investigated. A possible fifth grave (No. 2) was discovered before the Second World War at a gravel works in Dannigkow, when several artifacts from the Altmark group of deep engraving ceramics were found there. Joachim Preuss interpreted this site as a possible destroyed barrow , Hans-Jürgen Beier, however, as a destroyed large stone grave .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 was the largest of the facilities at Dannigkow. It was oriented north-south and had an artificial mound, which was surrounded by a rectangular enclosure made of 45 stones. A burial chamber is not mentioned, the complex should therefore be referred to as a chamberless giant bed .

Grave 2

Grave 2 consisted of the remains of an oval mound with a length of about 10 m and a width of about 8 m. The height obtained was about 0.25 m. The original height should have been around 1.5 m. Stones were not (any more) available. The found objects were fragments of the edge of bowls or eyelet beakers with triangular decoration, the rest of a clay spoon, a wall sherd with handle flaps and the rest of a stone utensil. The finds were privately owned and lost in World War II.

Grave 3

Grave 2 had a rectangular enclosure made of 25 stones and belonged to the type of chamberless giant beds.

Grave 4

Grave 4 had an east-west oriented triangular enclosure, which tapered towards the west and, according to Abel's description, still consisted of 41 stones. The complex had a burial chamber with a large cover and several wall stones. A determination of the grave type is not possible due to the imprecise description of the chamber.

Grave 5

Grave 5 had an east-west oriented rectangular enclosure made of 40 stones and belonged to the type of chamberless giant beds.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 45.
  • Ernst Herms: The megalithic graves of the district of Jerichow I. In: Festschrift of the Magdeburg Museum for Natural and Local History for the 10th Conference on Prehistory. Magdeburg 1928, pp. 244, 259.
  • Joachim Preuss: The Altmark group of deep engraving ceramics (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 33). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1980, p. 120.
  • Justus Christianus Thorschmidt: Plocensium pastor: Antiquitates Plocenses et Adjunctarum Prezzin et Elbenau. Leipzig 1725.