Great stone graves near Köhlingen
The megalithic graves near Köhlingen were five megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Köhlingen , a district of Tosterglope in the Lüneburg district ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
According to Johannes Heinrich Müller and Jacobus Reimers , grave 1 was on the land of the landlord Sasse and grave 2 on the land border of the landlords Niebuhr and Lütjens; Graves 3 and 4 were on the way above the Walmsburger Land and grave 5 near the Tostergloper field.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 had an oval mound with a length of 7.3 m and a width of 4.67 m. The enclosure consisted of 17 stones with a height of 1.16 m to 1.75 m. No information is available about the burial chamber .
Grave 2
Grave 2 also had an oval mound with a length of 19.27 m and a width of 8.76 m. The enclosure consisted of 32 stones with a height of 1.16 m to 1.75 m. In the middle of the mound was the burial chamber. It had several wall stones that protruded only 0.58 m from the ground. On top of them rested three cap stones, each 1.16 m wide and 1.75 m to 2 m long. Due to the number of capstones, the burial chamber must have been a large dolmen or a passage grave .
Grave 3
Grave 3 had an oval mound with a length of 9.63 m and a width of 7.3 m. The enclosure consisted of 14 stones. In the middle of the mound was the burial chamber, of which seven stones with a height of 1.16 m to 1.75 m were preserved. The exact type of grave can no longer be determined.
Grave 4
Grave 4 had an oval mound with a length of 4.67 m and a width of 4 m. It had already been largely destroyed by Müller's investigation; only three large stones remained, of which it is not clear whether they belonged to the enclosure or the burial chamber.
Grave 5
Grave 5 had a rectangular barn bed with a length of 43.22 m and a width of 5.25 m. The enclosure still consisted of 82 stones. No information is available about the burial chamber; it may already have been destroyed during Müller's investigation.
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 139 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- 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. 50.