Great stone graves near Grebbin

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Great stone graves near Grebbin
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Great stone graves near Grebbin (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Grebbin 1 coordinates: 53 ° 30 '26 "  N , 11 ° 51' 16.4"  E , Grebbin 2
place Obere Warnow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 411

The megalithic graves near Grebbin were originally eight megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Grebbin , a district of the municipality of Obere Warnow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there is only one grave. It bears the Sprockhoff number 411. Six graves were destroyed in the 19th century; another was still preserved after Robert Beltz around 1899 and was probably only removed in the early 20th century. No further information is available about the destroyed graves.

location

The preserved grave is located a good 500 m south-southwest of Grebbin in a field. The grave, which was still preserved around 1900, was about 75 m northeast of it. The exact location of the remaining six graves is not known. To the east of Grebbin there were still the large stone grave Wozinkel and the large stone graves near Granzin in the 19th century . The next preserved graves are the megalithic graves in Frauenmark to the west, the megalithic graves in Domsühl and the megalithic graves near Friedrichsruhe .

description

The preserved complex has a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber , of which only a pair of wall stones on the long sides and a capstone resting on them have been preserved. The capstone has a length of 2.5 m, a width of 1.8 m and a thickness of 1 m. Its top has several bowls . One of the wall stones has an incised drawing from 1931. These three stones appear to be the northwestern end of the chamber, but the end stone is missing. A stone lying in the corresponding place is only a part of an explosive device. According to Friedrich Schlie, the remaining wall and cap stones were removed as early as 1870. The chamber is 1.7 m wide. Robert Beltz carried out an excavation in 1904 , but could neither determine the original length nor the type of grave with certainty. He only noticed a pavement made of annealed flint and sandstone slabs. Among grave goods he found some brown, undecorated ceramic shards and the rest of a chisel-like device.

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. 20.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 96 ( online ).
  • Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 106 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4. Schwerin 1901, p. 630 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 129.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 37.

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