Great stone graves near Emmendorf
| Great stone graves near Emmendorf | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 0 '51.5 " N , 10 ° 33' 33.9" E | ||
| place | Emmendorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 772 | ||
The megalithic graves near Emmendorf were ten megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the municipality of Emmendorf in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony . The facilities were first recorded in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff . Several graves were already badly damaged by this time. Probably in the course of the construction of a railway line, all graves were completely removed after von Estorff's recording. Von Estorff only made a picture of grave 2. Ernst Sprockhoff included this facility in his atlas of Germany's megalithic tombs under the number 772.
location
The graves were located relatively close together about a kilometer southwest of Emmendorf at a point where a railway line now runs.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 had an east-west oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 22 m and a width of 6.5 m. When von Estorff took it, it was already badly damaged and only had two enclosing stones on the northern long side.
Grave 2
The system was oriented east-northeast-west-southwest. It had a slightly trapezoidal barren bed with a length of about 26 m and a width of 8.5 m in the west and 10 m in the east. The eastern part of the stone enclosure was still very well preserved. Von Estorff could still make out all five stones on the eastern narrow side. Nine stones were preserved on the northern long side, nine large ones and one small one on the southern one, which could have been an encircling stone, a dragged chamber stone or a fragment. In addition, two pits in the north and three pits in the south, in which there had originally been further surrounding stones. The western narrow side had already been completely removed.
The burial chamber had a length of 8 m. The two closing stones on the narrow sides and three wall stones on the southern and four on the northern long side were still in their original location. The remaining wall stones and all cap stones were already missing. Between the western end stone and the enclosure was a single small stone that von Estorff considered to be the remainder of the original entrance to the chamber. The complex could thus be addressed to Ganggrab . Von Estorff could not find any finds inside the chamber. In the rolling bed of the giant bed he pushed the other hand, to the Iron Age burials in the form of polls , as offerings fibulae of bronze and iron contained.
Grave 3
Grave 3 had a west-east oriented rectangular barrow. Only on the northwest corner were the surrounding stones still preserved. The dimensions of the facility have not been handed down.
Grave 4
In this grave, von Estorff could only see a burial chamber without a giant bed. It was oriented east-west and had a length of 5.5 m and a width of 3 m. The cap stones were already completely missing. About a dozen wall stones were still preserved, but they were no longer in situ . Due to its size, the chamber could only have been a large dolmen or a passage grave.
Grave 5
Grave 5 was already so badly damaged when von Estorff took his picture that he could only determine an approximately oval shape. Dimensions or an estimate of the number of originally built stones was no longer possible.
Grave 6
Grave 6 was already too badly damaged to be able to give more precise information about it. Only an approximately rectangular shape of the complex could still be made out.
Grave 7
Grave 7 was already so badly damaged that only an approximately oval shape could be made out.
Grave 8
Grave 8 had a north-west-south-east oriented barren bed with a length of 35 m and a width of 6 m. Between graves 8 and 9 ran a north-west-south-east oriented 40 m long row of 18 stones. Such rows of stones are extremely unusual for Central Europe. The only other example is at the Hekeser Steinen near Berge in the Osnabrück district .
Grave 9
Grave 9 had a north-west-south-east oriented barren bed with a length of 35 m and a width of 5.5 m. Von Estorff could make out the remains of a burial chamber, which he did not describe in detail.
Grave 10
When von Estorff took the picture, the system was already so badly damaged that he was unable to provide any details about its dimensions or shape.
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 , pp. 64-65.