Great stone graves near Gohlau
| Great stone graves near Gohlau | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 0 '39.4 " N , 10 ° 54' 15.6" E | ||
| place | Waddeweitz , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 729-731 | ||
The large stone graves near Gohlau are a group of three grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the Gohlau district in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Waddeweitz . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 729-731.
location
Grave 1 is located about 1 km northwest of Gohlau in a forest. Grave 2 is located 1.9 km southwest of this and about 200 m north-northeast of the Hohenvolkfien district. Grave 3 is again 1.2 km south of this, directly north of federal highway 493 . There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity. The Dickfeitzen large stone grave is located 600 m northeast of grave 1 and 770 m south of grave 3 .
description
Grave 1
The complex has a remains of a giant bed . A steel engraving by Estorffs based on his measurement of the grave in 1836 shows 16 stones of the enclosure as well as an east-west oriented burial chamber with 14 wall stones and six cap stones. When he took up the grave again in 1929, Ernst Sprockhoff found only scattered stones. Of these he could identify one as a wall stone and two as cap stones. Ten other stones could no longer be precisely assigned. Of these, five each lie on the edge of the burial chamber and around the barren bed.
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-west-south-east oriented mound bed, which is only preserved in its south-eastern part. In this is the burial chamber of the same orientation, which is an aisle grave . Several stones surrounding the megalithic bed are still preserved, but none of them are in their original position. The burial chamber is relatively well preserved and is 7 m long and 1.5 m wide. In its original state it probably had seven wall stones on the north-eastern long side, six on the south-west, one end stone each on the narrow sides, six cap stones and a corridor in the middle of the south-western long side, which had two pairs of wall stones and two cap stones. The south-eastern end stone, all six wall stones of the southwest and four of the north-eastern long side and two wall stones of the corridor are still preserved in situ . A capstone lies broken inside the chamber, another a little outside.
Grave 3
Grave 3 is very badly damaged. It has a flat oval mound with a length of 16 m and a width of 10 m. This houses a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber. Only one wall stone on the north-eastern long side is still in situ. Twelve other stones are scattered around. Their original position can no longer be determined. In addition, numerous reading stones from the adjacent fields were unloaded on the grave .
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, Sp 19, plate II 5.
- Michael Martin Lienau: About megalithic graves and other grave forms in the Lüneburg area. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1914.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 52.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 11.
