Great stone graves at Jeggeleben

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The megalithic graves at Jeggeleben were at least four, perhaps even 14, megalithic tombs from the Neolithic deep-engraving ceramic culture at Jeggeleben , a district of Kalbe (Milde) in the Altmark district of Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . All were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

Graves 1 and 2 were in the forest towards the village of Sallenthin and were about 80 m apart. The remaining twelve plants were located southwest of Jeggeleben in the direction of Mösenthin . There was another large stone grave in both Sallenthin and Mösenthin, but these two facilities no longer exist either.

Research history

The facilities were first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . He only published documentation for graves 1 and 2, only handwritten records are available for the remaining facilities. When the large stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that all the graves had been completely removed in the meantime as part of the separation .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 had a stone enclosure with a length of 17.0 m and a width of 6.6 m. The enclosing stones were of an extraordinary size; some of them protruded 2.2 m from the earth. The burial chamber had four capstones, so it should have been a large dolmen or a passage grave .

Grave 2

Grave 2 had an enclosure with a length of 21.4 m and a width of 9.4 m. Here, too, the surrounding stones were particularly large. The burial chamber was already showing severe damage when Danneil was taken. Several wall and cap stones were missing. More precise measurements or a determination of the grave type were therefore no longer possible.

Graves 3 and 4

The tombs 3 and 4 had artificial hills beds which with big granite - boulders were included. According to Danneil, one of the graves still had a clearly visible burial chamber. This complex had been excavated by residents of the Jeggeleben community, although no particular finds were made.

Graves 5-14

The rest of the graves were also artificial mounds, but they were only surrounded by small stones stuck deep in the earth. It is unclear whether these complexes were large stone graves or burial mounds. Krause and Schoetensack tended towards the latter.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 57.
  • 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, no. 132-133 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, p. 161, no. 179-180 and no. ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).