Great stone graves near Gienau
| Great stone graves near Gienau | |||
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 Grave 1, reconstructed in 1950 under Ernst Sprockhoff |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 '6.9 " N , 10 ° 38' 57.7" E | ||
| place | Dahlenburg , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 703-704 | ||
The large stone graves near Gienau are a group of what were probably originally five graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near the district of Gienau in the district of Lüneburg ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Dahlenburg . Four of these still exist today. Graves 1 and 4 bear the Sprockhoff numbers 703 and 704. The classification of Annexes 2 and 3 as large stone graves is uncertain.
location
Graves 1 to 3 are halfway between the districts of Siecke and Becklingen, a few meters north of the road in a wood. Grave 4 is about 600 m south-southwest of it. Directly south of grave 4 is a 1.5 m high hill that may contain another grave. The destroyed grave 5 was northeast of Gienau near the road to Dumstorf.
description
Preserved graves
Grave 1
The complex has a flat, north-east-south-west oriented mound , the original length of which can no longer be determined. The burial chamber is formed by an enlarged dolmen , also oriented to the northeast and southwest . Of this, all six wall stones and one of the original two cap stones are still present. Other surrounding stones could belong to the enclosure of the megalithic bed. The grave was first described in 1924 by Franz Krüger. He found the wall stones of the south-eastern long side and the end stone of the north-eastern narrow side still standing in situ . The capstone had fallen inside the chamber, pressing the three remaining wall stones outwards. In 1950, Ernst Sprockhoff carried out a further investigation and subsequent reconstruction of the grave. The knocked over wall stones were returned to their original position and the cap stone was placed back on the burial chamber.
Graves 2 and 3
Attachments 2 and 3 are to the east of grave 1. They consist of round burial mounds with a height of 1 m. The hill of plant 2 has a diameter of 8 m, that of plant 3 has a diameter of 10 m. There are several stones on these hills, but they do not reveal any order. Without an in-depth investigation, the two complexes cannot therefore be unequivocally regarded as large stone graves.
Grave 4
Grave 4 is in a very bad state of preservation. A slight elevation in the soil suggests the remainder of a mound. The burial chamber is oriented east-west. Only the terminal stone on the western narrow side is in situ. Another seven stones are lying around, but no longer provide any information about their original position.
The destroyed grave 5
The grave was oval and was 12 m long and 3.2 m wide. It had an enclosure that still consisted of 18 stones when Müller and Reimers took it at the end of the 19th century.
literature
- Franz Krüger: Megalithic graves in the Bleckede, Dannenberg, Lüneburg and Winsen ad Luhe districts. In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 1, 1927, pp. 35, 38.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 141 ( 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. 43, 49.