Great stone graves near Hohen Wieschendorf
| Great stone graves near Hohen Wieschendorf | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 57 '27.7 " N , 11 ° 19' 47.7" E | ||
| place | Hohenkirchen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 319 | ||
The megalithic graves near Hohen Wieschendorf were four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Hohen Wieschendorf , a district of Hohenkirchen in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 319. It was still preserved in the 1930s, but Ewald Schuldt listed it as destroyed in 1972. Grave 2 was destroyed and examined in 1836. The finds preserved today are in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern inSchwerin .
location
Grave 1 was about 1.5 km north of Hohen Wieschendorf in a small forest on the high bank of a headland. Graves 3 and 4 were nearby. The exact location of grave 2 is not known.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 had a north-east-south-west oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 22 m and a width of 4 m. The former stone enclosure had already completely disappeared in the 1930s. The burial chamber , which was an ancient dolmen, is located in the middle of the megalithic bed . It consisted of a long bearing stone on each of the long sides, a capping stone on the north-western narrow side and a lower stone on the south-eastern narrow side. The chamber was 1.5 m long and 0.7 m wide.
Grave 2
Grave 2 was in a sand mountain. It had at least three, maybe even four grave chambers, which were probably Urdolmen. They stood 7–8 paces (approx. 5.3–6 m) apart. The chambers were 5 feet (about 1.5 m) long and 2.5 feet (about 0.8 m) wide.
A chamber containing a ceramic vessel and seven or eight Feuerstein - hatchets . The remaining chambers contained other axes of unknown number and at least one small chisel . The chisel and four axes were given to the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology; Of these, the chisel and a trapezoid flat ax are still preserved today.
Graves 3 and 4
Ewald Schuldt found two more graves when the high bank was demolished in 1968, which were also large dolmen.
literature
- Hune grave of Hohen-Wieschendorf (near Wismar). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 3, 1838, p. 36 ( online ).
- 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. 14.
- Robert Beltz : The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 99 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Panel tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, plate 5/12.
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 96.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 2. Schwerin 1899, p. 337 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 124.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : The Nordic megalithic culture (= manual of the prehistory of Germany. Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, p. 4.
- Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 6.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Hohen Wieschendorf Steingrab