Great stone graves near Gollern
The megalithic graves near Gollern were three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Gollern , a district of Bad Bevensen in the Uelzen district ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. The graves were documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff , but not described in detail.
location
A grave was located northwest of Gollern on the north side of a path that no longer exists today. Directly to the east was a large group of burial mounds . Graves 2 and 3 were north-north-west of the town near the intersection of two streets (today the confluence of a street coming from Gollern with Landesstraße 253).
description
No information is available about the orientation, dimensions and type of grave of the systems. The card signatures only show that grave 1 had either only a rectangular burial chamber or a very small rectangular barrow bed . Grave 2 had a round mound and grave 3 a larger rectangular barn bed.
literature
- Georg O. Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846, ( digitized ).
- 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. 74.