Great stone graves near Huntlosen

Great stone graves near Huntlosen Huntlose 1 - 3
The great stone grave of Huntlosen 1
Coordinates	52 ° 58 '58.3 "  N , 8 ° 14' 8.7"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 58 '58.3 "  N , 8 ° 14' 8.7"  E
place	Grossenkneten , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence	3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no.	931

Ground plan of the preserved Huntlose I tomb

The large stone graves near Huntlosen were three grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the Großenkneter district of Huntlosen in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg . Two graves are destroyed today. The preserved grave bears the Sprockhoff number 931.

description

The preserved grave of Huntlosen 1

The grave is also referred to as the “Großsteingrab Wittenhöge” or “Giant Bed”. It is located about three kilometers west-south-west of Huntlosen and two kilometers north-north-west of Döhlen in a wooded area on the north-western edge of the "Wittenhöhe (Wittenhöge)" corridor, in the middle of an extensive barrow field . At the time of Ernst Sprockhoff's admission in 1930, it was still densely overgrown. He could make out an approximately east-west oriented burial chamber about 14 meters long and two meters wide. There were twelve stones. Today the grave is in poor condition. The stones described by Sprockhoff are still there, but most of them are no longer in their original location. Cap stones are no longer available.

Huntlose's destroyed grave 2

The second grave is also known as the “Hosüner Büsche” or “Heidkamp”. It was right on the western outskirts of Huntlosen. The grave suffered major damage after the First World War , when two stones were removed for the construction of a war memorial in Sandkrug . Further destruction took place at the end of the 1930s when the Hegeler-Wald-Straße was built. In 1952, another large stone was used to expand the war memorial in Sandkrug. In 1955 there was only one large capstone left. This was probably removed in 1972 when extensive clean-up work and the construction of drainage channels in the forest became necessary after a major storm.

Huntlose's destroyed grave 3

The third grave was a little south of grave 1 on Wennekamps Eye. It was discovered during drainage work and examined in 1934/1935. In the following time it was completely destroyed.

literature

• 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. 130-132.
• State of Oldenburg, Ministry of State (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg. Booklet 1. Wildeshausen Office. Stalling, Oldenburg 1896, p. 72.

Web links

Commons : Great Stone Tomb Huntlosen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Navigator: LGLN ​​focused on grave 1, more convenient interactive official nds. Map service
• Large stone grave "Huntlosen 1", Hosüne, Huntlosen, Großenkneten
• Great stone grave Huntlosen = Wittenhöge, "giant bed", west of Huntlosen
• Großsteingrab Huntlosen = Großsteingrab Wittenhöge, west of Huntlosen
• Graves ensemble * (large stone grave and tumulus) near Huntlosen, Grossenkneten community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs 3. P. 132.
2. ↑ megalithic grave Huntlosen = Wittenhöge, "giant bed", west of Huntlosen
3. ↑ megalithic grave Huntlosen = Wittenhöge, "giant bed", west of Huntlosen
4. ↑ megalithic grave Huntlosen = Wittenhöge, "giant bed", west of Huntlosen