Great stone graves near Groß Thondorf
| Great stone graves near Groß Thondorf | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 8 '18 .8 " N , 10 ° 42' 53.8" E | ||
| place | Himbergen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 766-767 | ||
The large stone graves near Groß Thondorf were two grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Groß Thondorf in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Himbergen . Only one of these still exists today. The surviving grave bears the Sprockhoff number 766, the destroyed number 767.
location
The preserved grave is located 1.5 km northeast of Groß Thondorf in a forest. The destroyed grave 2 was south of this. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. So is located 960 meters northwest of grave 1, the megalithic grave Ahndorf , 2.2 km to the northwest, the megalithic tombs at Lemgrabe and 1.9 km to the southeast, the megalithic tombs at Kettelstorf .
description
The preserved grave 1
The grave has a north-west-south-east oriented mound bed with a length of about 50 m and a width of 2.5 m. The maximum height is 1.0 m. When Georg Otto Carl von Estorff took the picture around 1846, the giant bed was even larger at 56 m by 6.5 m. Even then, the enclosure was no longer complete and still consisted of 43 stones. When Ernst Sprockhoff was re-enrolled, this number had already decreased significantly and most of the stones were scattered around. Only two stones on the south-western and one on the north-eastern long side were still in situ . A burial chamber cannot be seen and is perhaps still hidden under the mound.
The destroyed grave 2
The second grave was also oriented northwest-southeast. According to von Estorff, the mound bed had a length of 60 m and a width of 7 m. The enclosure was almost completely preserved. About in the middle of the megalithic bed was a small burial chamber, but it was already badly damaged. Only the south-eastern end stone and the two adjoining wall stones on the long sides were still in situ. A capstone had been dragged next to the giant bed. To the southeast of the burial chamber, von Estorff found a large stone pavement.
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.
- Karl Hermann Jacob : The megalithic graves of the district of Ülzen and the protection of the prehistoric monuments. In: News sheet for Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, p. 16.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 79 ( 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. 63.
