Great stone graves near Heeßel

The megalithic graves near Heeßel were several megalithic graves of unknown numbers from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Heeßel , a town in Hemmoor in the district of Cuxhaven ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. The graves were in the Wedelsforth district . To the north were the megalithic graves near Westersode , to the northeast the megalithic graves near Warstade . According to Johann Karl Wächter , around 1841 only scattered stones were left of the grounds near Heeßel, which no longer allowed any conclusions to be drawn about the number and original appearance of the graves. In the following years these residues were also completely removed.

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 186 ( 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. 16.
• Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 66 ( online ).