Great stone graves near Freidorf

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Great stone graves near Freidorf
Great stone graves near Freidorf (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Freidorf 1 Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 0.1 ″  N , 12 ° 54 ′ 41.1 ″  E , Freidorf 2 , Freidorf 3
place Möllenhagen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 437-439

The megalithic graves near Freidorf are three megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Freidorf , a district of Möllenhagen in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They have the Sprockhoff numbers 437-439.

location

The graves are located south of Freidorf. Graves 1 and 2 are located in the southwest corner of the Seeholz forest, with grave 1 just behind the southern edge of the forest and grave 2 280 m north of it near the northern edge of the forest. Grave 2 is located 400 m northwest of grave 2 in a field, just a few meters south of a dirt road. It is overgrown with thorn bushes. The large rock grave Klein Dratow is located 2.5 km northwest of grave 3 .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 has a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber , which is an enlarged dolmen . It has a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. The chamber originally had two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a closing stone on the north-western narrow side, a smaller closing stone on the south-eastern narrow side and two cap stones. The north-western end stone and the south-eastern wall stone of the north-eastern long side are still in situ . The second stone on this long side is rolled outwards. The south-eastern end stone and the adjoining wall stone on the south-western long side have been dragged outwards. The capstones and the northwest wall stone of the southwest long side are missing.

Grave 2

Grave 2

Grave 2 has a round mound with a diameter of 14 m. This encloses an east-west oriented burial chamber, originally encased by a rolling stone packing, which is also an enlarged dolmen. All stones are still preserved. The two pairs of wall stones on the long sides and the end stones are still in situ. Only the western stone on the south side is slightly twisted. The eastern end stone is a narrow plate that leaves an access to the chamber at the northeast corner. The eastern capstone fell inside the chamber, the western one is outside the chamber. The western capstone has numerous bowls .

Grave 3

Grave 3 probably originally had a round mound, but it can no longer be exactly reconstructed. The north-south oriented burial chamber is also an enlarged dolmen. It has a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. In the documentation by Ernst Sprockhoff in 1935, five wall stones were still present: The northern end stone and the adjoining stone on the eastern long side were in situ, the southern stone on the east side was split into two parts, the southern stone on the west side and the southern end stone were sunk outwards. The north wall stone of the west wall and the cap stones were missing. The southern end stone is significantly smaller than its counterpart and allows access to the chamber at the southeast corner. Because of the heavy vegetation, it is not possible to clearly determine whether the grave is in the condition described by Sprockhoff or whether it has since been more severely destroyed.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 37.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 139.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : The Nordic megalithic culture (= manual of the prehistory of Germany. Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, pp. 26, 28, 46, 48, plates 8/3.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 46.

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