Great stone graves near Hanstedt II
| Great stone graves near Hanstedt II Great stone graves near Gansau (graves 1–4) | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 57 '26.9 " N , 10 ° 40' 10" E | ||
| place | Uelzen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 799-800 | ||
The large stone graves near Hanstedt II were five or six grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Hanstedt II in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony, which belongs to Uelzen . Four of these facilities are also known as megalithic graves near Gansau . All graves were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
The Gansau residential area is northeast of Hanstedt II. Four graves are to the east of it. Grave 1 was closest to the location and about 170 m away. Grave 2 was about 140 m to the south and graves 3 and 4, which are directly next to each other, about 280 m to the east. Two other graves were located southwest and southeast of Hanstedt II.
description
The megalithic tombs were in 1846 by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff documented. Four graves near Gansau were described in detail by him and he made drawings of three. These four graves were used as large stone graves near Gansau . Von Estorff did not provide any details about the other two graves at Hanstedt II. Two of the complexes described by von Estorff have the Sprockhoff numbers 799 and 800. All graves were destroyed in the second half of the 19th century, although the exact reasons for this are no longer known. As with many other grave structures of this type, their stones were probably used for road construction or they were removed by farmers because they interfered with plowing the fields.
Grave 1
Grave 1 possessed a trapezoidal, roughly north-south oriented barn, with a length of 31 meters and a width of nine meters in the south and seven meters in the north. The stone enclosure was still more or less completely preserved when von Estorff took the picture, but it was already showing some disturbances, especially on the eastern long side. The burial chamber was a little north of the middle of the megalithic bed. It was also oriented north-south and was about 4.6 meters long and almost 2 meters wide. According to von Estorff's description, it had five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. On the other hand, the drawing incorrectly shows two capping stones. The capstones had all been removed.
Grave 2
Grave 2 was already largely destroyed when von Estorff was taken. It had a trapezoidal, north-east-south-west oriented barren bed with a length of 22 m and a width of 5 m in the north-east and 7 m in the south-west. At the northeast end was the burial chamber, which had already been stripped of all capstones.
Grave 3
Grave 3 had a short, oval, north-east-south-west oriented megalithic bed with largely completely preserved stone surrounds. The chamber in the center was 4 m long and 1.6 m wide. It had three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. All three capstones were still in their original position when von Estorff took the picture.
Grave 4
Grave 4 had a largely complete, oval enclosure with the grave chamber in the center. It was oriented northeast-southwest and had only two pairs of wall stones and a single capstone. Due to the small size of the chamber, Ernst Sprockhoff did not address it as a large stone grave, but as a stone box .
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.
- Michael Martin Lienau: About megalithic graves and other grave forms in the Lüneburg area. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1914.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 72-73, 74.
