Great stone graves near Hansühn
| Great stone graves near Hansühn | |||
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 Hansühn 1 (2020), completely overgrown |
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| Coordinates | Hansühn 1 , Hansühn 2 | ||
| place | Wangels OT Hansühn , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 272-273 | ||
The megalithic graves near Hansühn are two megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Hansühn , a district of Wangels in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 272 and 273.
location
Grave 1 is located south of Hansühn shortly after leaving the town , directly east of the road to Neutestorf . Grave 2 is located 600 m northeast of the church of Hansühn and 1.6 km north-northeast of grave 1 in a field. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 400 m south of grave 1 are the large stone graves near Neutestorf and 1 km northeast of the large stone grave Testorf . 2.4 km east-southeast of grave 2 is the large stone grave Meischenstorf and 2.6 km east the large stone grave Grammdorf 1 .
description
Grave 1
The facility has a northeast-southwest oriented trapezoidal barn , the northeastern part of which has been destroyed by sand mining. When Ernst Sprockhoff took the photo in 1937, most of the surrounding stones were still there in the preserved south-western part of the bed, but some had tipped over to the outside. The burial chamber is located near the south-eastern long side of the bed and is also partially destroyed by sand mining. It is a north-east-south-west oriented passage grave of the Holstein Chamber subtype with an original length of about 3.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. Originally, the chamber probably had four wall stones on the south-eastern and three on the north-western long side, one end stone on the north-eastern and two on the south-western narrow side, and three cap stones. In 1937 the two south-western end stones, one adjoining wall stone on the north-western side and three adjoining wall stones on the south-eastern long side were still preserved. Of the capstones, only the middle one was left. It was inside the chamber. The original access to the chamber was located between the third and missing fourth wall stone on the southeast side, seen from the southwest. In front of this was a corridor made of originally two wall stones, of which only the southwestern one was preserved. The corridor was 1 m long and 0.5 m wide. In front of the entrance, Sprockhoff also found a round stone slab that might have served as a closure. Due to the dense vegetation, it cannot be determined with certainty whether the system is currently still in the condition described by Sprockhoff.
Grave 2
The system has a round mound with a diameter of 10 m. When taking his picture in 1936, Ernst Sprockhoff stated that the mound had been removed, but a mound can clearly be seen in more recent photos. At least 16 stones are still preserved from the enclosure. The north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber is still deep in the ground. Two capstones can be seen, the larger of which is 2 m long and 1.5 m wide. Two smaller stones can also be seen at the northeast end and one stone at the southwest end. The exact dimensions and type of chamber are unknown. Ernst Sprockhoff accepted a chamber with three capstones, either a large dolmen or a passage grave.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 73-74.