Great stone graves near Immekath
| Great stone graves near Immekath | |||
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| Coordinates | Immekath 1 , Immekath 2 | ||
| place | Klötze , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3700 to 3350 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves at Immekath were originally six megalithic graves from the Neolithic deep-engraving ceramic culture near Immekath , a district of Klötze in the Altmark district of Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . Today only two systems exist, the remaining four were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
Grave 1 is located 2.4 km northwest of Immekath in a forest. Grave 2 is located 2.0 km northwest of the village and 450 m southeast of grave 1 in a field. Grave 3 was south of Immekath in the area of the Pressau desert , grave 4 at the Hoppermühle on the right of the Jeetze , grave 5 nearby on the left bank of the Jeetze and grave 6 in Giez-Kamp between Immekath and Nesenitz .
There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity. About 1.1 km northeast of grave 1 is the Riestedt large stone grave (one of the original eight structures). 2.1 km northwest of grave 1 are the megalithic graves at Tangeln .
Research history
The graves were first described in 1843 by Johann Friedrich Danneil . At the beginning of the 1890s, Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that only two graves were left when the Altmark was taken again. The remaining facilities had been destroyed in the meantime. In 2003-04, all remaining large stone graves in the Altmark were recorded and measured as a joint project of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt , the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum in Salzwedel and the association “Young Archaeologists of the Altmark”.
description
Preserved graves
Grave 1
Grave 1 belongs to the large dolmen type . The mound is oval and 6.1 m long. Their height is 0.6 m. There is no grave border. The burial chamber is oriented east-west. It still consists of six wall stones and a cap stone. Several more wall stones and two cap stones have not survived. The remaining capstone measures 2.0 m × 1.8 m × 0.8 m and is now at an angle in the burial chamber. The chamber itself is rectangular and has internal dimensions 3.7 m × 1.6 m.
Grave 2
Grave 2 also belongs to the large dolmen type. The mound was heavily plowed today and hardly preserved. The grave border is also completely missing today. During investigations in 1931, two enclosing stones could still be made out, but they were no longer there by 1932. The burial chamber is oriented northwest-southeast. Only five wall stones and one cap stone have survived, others are missing, including four cap stones. The remaining capstone measures 2.3 m × 1.7 m × 0.9 m. The interior dimensions of the chamber are 6.2 m × 1.2 m.
Destroyed graves
Grave 3
Plant 3 had a burial chamber with a length of 5 m and a width of 2.5 m. The grave had 3 cap stones. It was probably a large dolmen.
Grave 4
The grave was already partially destroyed when it was examined by Johann Friedrich Danneil in the 1830s. It had a total length of 9.4 m and a width of 5 m. No information is available about the burial chamber, so that the exact type of grave cannot be determined.
Grave 5
Grave 5 was already badly damaged when Danneil was examined. There is no more detailed information about the orientation, dimensions and type of grave.
Grave 6
Grave 6 had a total length of 11.3 m and a width of 6.3 m. The burial chamber had four cap stones. It was therefore either a large dolmen or a passage grave .
See also
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. 52.
- Wilhelm Blasius : Guide to the megalithic grave monuments in the western part of the Salzwedel district. In: Thirty-first annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. Issue 2, 1904, pp. 112–113 ( PDF; 8.1 MB ).
- Hartmut Bock , Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag: Great stone graves of the Altmark . State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2006, ISBN 3-939414-03-4 , pp. 86–87.
- Johann Friedrich Danneil : Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark . In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry . 1843, p. 115 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
- Hans-Ulrich Kelch: Mysterious pans. In: Hartmut Bock (Ed.): Cities - Villages - Friedhöfe. Archeology in the Altmark 2: From the High Middle Ages to the modern age (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas, Volume 8). Oschersleben 2002, ISBN 3-935358-36-9 , pp. 458-469.
- Eduard Krause , Otto Schoetensack : The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany . I .: Altmark . In: Journal of Ethnology . Vol. 25, 1893, p. 159 / no. 168–169, Plates VI / 168–169, VII / 168–169 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).
- Britta Schulze-Thulin : Large stone graves and menhirs. Saxony-Anhalt • Thuringia • Saxony . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2007, ISBN 978-3-89812-428-7 , pp. 48-49.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Grave 1 , Grave 2
- grosssteingraeber.de: grave 1 , grave 2
- strahlen.org: grave 1 , grave 2
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