Great stone graves near Grambergen
| Great stone graves near Grambergen Great stone grave Deitinghausen | |||
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 The preserved large stone grave Grambergen |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 17 '27 " N , 8 ° 18' 7.8" E | ||
| place | Bissendorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 923 | ||
The large stone graves near Grambergen were two grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Grambergen in the district of Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Bissendorf . Only one of these still exists today. This bears the Sprockhoff number 923 and is also known under the name Großsteingrab Deitinghausen . It originated in the Neolithic between 3500 and 2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel cup culture (TBK) of the Emsland Chamber type . The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems , which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands.
location
The preserved grave is one kilometer northeast of the Deitinghausen residential area on the edge of a forest. In 1893, Müller and Reimers mentioned the remains of another grave only seven meters away, of which, however, nothing is left anymore. 150 m northwest of the preserved grave lies a striking, large boulder , which is known as the "sacrificial stone". Another kilometer to the northwest is the Krevinghausen 1 large stone grave .
description
The grave was first described in 1841 by Johann Karl Wächter , who, however, mistakenly assumed four graves that were close together. Based on this, he described a grave with three wall stones and one capstone, as well as three other graves, the capstones of which had all fallen down. A grave still has four wall stones, another only one. Although this misleading description was corrected by Johannes Heinrich Müller in 1871, it was received by other authors until the end of the 19th century.
Ernst Sprockhoff assumed an approximately east-west oriented burial chamber with a length of 8.7 m and a width of 1.1 m, which is probably a large dolmen . According to Sprockhoff, the chamber originally had seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and six cap stones. When he was taken in 1927, he found six wall stones on the north and five on the south long side, five and four of them in situ . The eastern wall stone on the northern long side was moved outwards, the western wall stone on the southern long side and the western end stone were moved outwards. The end stone on the eastern narrow side had fallen outwards. Three capstones were still there, one of which was still in its original position, the other two had fallen into the interior of the chamber.
At some point after Sprockhoff's recording, the grave must have been partially reconstructed, as it now has three more cap stones and seven more wall stones.
literature
- Nikolaus Bödige: Natural and historical monuments of the Osnabrück region. Osnabrück 1920, p. 61.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Pre-Christian antiquities in the state of Hanover. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony. 1867, pp. 339-340.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: The stone monument at Deitinghausen. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities in Stade. Volume 4, 1871, pp. 377ff.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 277 ( 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 , p. 127.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, pp. 103-104.
Web links
- Great stone grave Grambergen = Deitinghausen
- Cult stone "Sacrificial stone Grambergen", Deitinghausen, near Osnabrück
- Großsteingrab Grambergen (Also: Großsteingrab Deitinghausen)
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Karl Wächter: Statistics of the pagan monuments in the Kingdom of Hanover. P. 104.
- ↑ Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. P. 127.
- ↑ Grambergen = Deitinghausen stone grave