Great stone graves near Holte-Lastrup
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 43 '50.9 " N , 7 ° 35' 32.3" E | ||
| place | Lähden , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 868-869 | ||
The large stone graves near Holte-Lastrup were three grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Holte-Lastrup in the district of Emsland ( Lower Saxony ) belonging to the municipality of Lähden, of which only two still exist today. Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 869, grave 2 the number 868.
location
The two preserved graves are located southwest of Holte-Lastrup in a wooded area. Grave 2 is only 100 m north-west of grave 1. A third grave originally located near these two complexes was destroyed in the 19th century.
description
Grave 1
The grave has an east-west oriented chamber, which is probably a large dolmen . In its original condition, it should have had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. When Ernst Sprockhoff documented the grave in 1927, he found the western end stone, two adjoining wall stones on the north side and three adjoining wall stones on the south side standing in situ . The western capstone has broken, but is still on the wall stones. The remaining three capstones lie broken inside the chamber. A more recent documentation has shown that the two eastern wall stones on the north side assumed by Sprockhoff as missing are actually still there.
Grave 2
This system is very similar to the first. The burial chamber is oriented northeast-southwest and originally also had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, two end stones and four cap stones. According to Sprockhoff's reconstruction drawing, it should also be a large dolmen. Only three wall stones on the north-western and two on the south-eastern long side have been preserved in situ. Inside the chamber are two cap stones that have been blown into several fragments.
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Pre-Christian monuments of the Laddrostei districts Lüneburg and Osnabrück in the Kingdom of Hanover. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1864, p. 299.
- Elisabeth Schlicht : The Prehistory of the Hümmling. Part 1. The Stone Age. Unprinted dissertation, Kiel 1942, pp. 172, 177–178.
- 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. 105.
Web links
- Great stone grave Lastrup II, southeast of Lähden
- Large stone grave "Holte-Lastrup 1", Lastrup, southeast of Lähden
- Large stone grave "Holte-Lastrup 2", Lastrup, southeast of Lähden