Great stone graves near Hohen Niendorf

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Great stone graves near Hohen Niendorf
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Great stone graves near Hohen Niendorf (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 54 ° 6 '47.7 "  N , 11 ° 42' 6.5"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '47.7 "  N , 11 ° 42' 6.5"  E
place Bastorf , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 339

The megalithic graves near Hohen Niendorf were three megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Hohen Niendorf , a district of Bastorf in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there are only two plants left. Grave 2 bears the Sprockhoff number 339. Grave 1 was destroyed in the 19th century.

location

Grave 2 is located in the Jagdschloss Park, just a few meters west of the castle and can be reached via a path. Grave 3 is also in the park, its exact location is not given. The original location of the destroyed grave 1 is also not known. 3.2 km west of grave 2 are the megalithic graves of Mechelsdorf .

description

Grave 1

All that is known about grave 1 is that it was an ancient dolmen .

Grave 2

Grave 2 has a north-south oriented grave chamber , originally encased by a rolling stone hill , which is a large dolmen . The chamber originally had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides. All four wall stones are still preserved on the east side, three of them in situ; the second stone from the south is inclined inwards. On the western long side, only the southern stone can be seen, the others may be in the ground. The two closing stones on the narrow sides are missing. The original three cap stones are all still there, but no longer lie on the wall stones. The middle capstone is broken in two. The chamber has a length of 5 m and a width of 1.8 m.

Grave 3

Pile of stones around a tree in the castle park - possibly wrongly interpreted as a second grave?

With reference to Friedrich Schlie , Adolf Hollnagel mentions a second large dolmen in the palace gardens. It may just be a misinterpretation of a pile of stones draped around a tree.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 2.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 3. Schwerin 1900, p. 723 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 116.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 11-12.

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