Great stone graves near Krevinghausen
| Great stone graves near Krevinghausen | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 17 '52.8 " N , 8 ° 17' 31.3" E | ||
| place | Bissendorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 918 | ||
The large stone graves near Krevinghausen were three graves of the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near the Krevinghausen part of the municipality of Bissendorf in the district of Osnabrück ( Lower Saxony ), of which only one still exists today. This bears the Sprockhoff number 918.
location
The preserved grave is located about two kilometers east of Krevinghausen in a wooded area. Closer to the site and 1.5 km and 2.2 km west of grave 1, respectively, were graves 2 and 3, which were destroyed in the 19th century.
description
The preserved grave is oriented northwest-southeast. The burial chamber has a length of 4.5 m and a width of 1.2 m. Ten wall stones have been preserved, but only four stones on the north-eastern long side are still in situ . A fifth one fell outwards. The four stones on the southwest side and the northwest end stone fell into the interior of the chamber. Two of the capstones are still preserved. One lies in the chamber, the other abducted northwest outside of it. A few more stones lying around could perhaps represent the remains of an enclosure. The overall rather poor state of preservation does not allow an exact reconstruction of the original appearance of the complex.
After the grave was recorded by Ernst Sprockhoff in 1927, Ernst Körner, who published the third volume of the "Atlas of Megalithic Tombs of Germany" after Sprockhoff's death, was unable to find it when he visited again in 1969, probably because of inaccurate location information. The system is therefore erroneously described as destroyed in the atlas.
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Pre-Christian antiquities in the state of Hanover. In: Journal of the historical association for Lower Saxony. 1867, p. 339.
- Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Ed.) The Osnabrücker Land III. Excursions (= guides to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 44). Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 978-3-8053-0313-2 , p. 27.
- 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. 100-101.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 104.