Great stone graves near Heine
| Great stone graves near Heine | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 17 '12.1 " N , 8 ° 39' 3.9" E | ||
| place | Hagen im Bremischen or Schwanewede , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 625-626 | ||
The large stone graves near Heine are two grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Heine in the district of Cuxhaven, which belongs to the municipality of Hagen in Bremen, on the border with the municipality of Schwanewede in the district of Osterholz ( Lower Saxony ). They have the Sprockhoff numbers 625 and 626.
location
The two graves are located southwest of Heine in the Düngel forest , about 500 m north of the Garlstedt training area . Grave 2 is 25 m south of grave 1. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity. To the north and west, at a distance of between 1.3 and 2.4 km, are the four large stone graves near Lehnstedt and 1.7 km to the west, the large stone grave Meyenburg .
description
Grave 1
The complex has a north-south oriented burial chamber, which is probably still largely covered by the flat earth. Only a few fragments protrude and do not provide any detailed information about the exact structure of the tomb. A large stone in the south is likely to be a capstone. In its middle it has a blast hole.
Grave 2
The grave has a round mound with a diameter of about 13 m. In its center is the north-south oriented burial chamber, which is an enlarged dolmen . It has a length of 4.2 m and a width of 2.2 m. In its original state, the chamber had three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and two large cap stones. The southern pair of wall stones is missing today, but all other wall stones are still in situ , whereby the middle stone on the eastern long side is slightly inclined inward. The two capstones are also still there. The southern one is still in its original position. It has a length of 2.65 m, a width of 2 m and a thickness of 1 m. The second, slightly smaller stone fell inside the chamber.
The area of the grave is protected as a natural monument ( ND 18 in the Osterholz district ).
See also
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 204 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Hans Müller-Brauel: The prehistoric monuments of the Geestemünde district. In: Annual Report of the Men of the Morning Star. Volume 11, 1908/09 (1910), pp. 195-196.
- 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. 9-10.
- Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs: The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957, plate 57.
