Great stone graves near Lübs

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The large stone graves near Lübs were probably five megalithic Neolithic graves near Lübs , a district of Gommern in the district of Jerichower Land , Saxony-Anhalt . All were probably destroyed in the 18th or early 19th century.

location

Grave 1 was not far from the Klein Lübs windmill , on the eastern side of the path leading to Gehrden . Grave 2 was only a few meters away. Grave 3 was between Lübs and Gödnitz , near the former field mark Rosenhagen, on the field "Entenpfuhle". Grave 4 was near Groß-Lübs, near the road to Buhlendorf . To the north-west of Lübs was the Prödel large stone grave , which was destroyed in the 18th century, and to the south-east were the three large stone graves near Gehrden , one of which is still preserved today.

Research history

The former existence of three large stone graves near Lübs was documented for the first time by Joachim Gottwalt Abel , who was pastor in Möckern between 1755 and 1806 . He left only handwritten notes on this, which were published by Ernst Herms in 1928 . Around the same time as Abel, C. von Meussbach reported in 1766 about the excavation of a fourth grave.

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 was a north-south oriented chamberless giant bed. It was already partially destroyed by Abel's documentation and still had twelve upright stones.

Grave 2

Grave 2 was also a north-south facing chamberless giant bed. It was also partially destroyed. It had originally had two rows of stones along the long sides, most of which had already been removed during Abel's investigation; he could still make out 22 small and partly overturned stones.

Grave 3

Grave 3 was also a north-south oriented chamberless giant bed. It had two rows of stones on the long sides, 26 of which were still preserved when Abel examined it. The largest stone stood on the southwest corner and was 8 feet high and 4 feet wide. Another was dragged a little further east.

Grave 4

According to Meussbach, a little more than 20 stones were preserved from the fourth grave in 1766, which were lying close together in a heap. This information is not sufficient to determine the type of grave. In the grave (probably human) bones as well as ceramic fragments, a completely preserved vessel and two pieces of gold wire were found. The finds are lost today, but there is a drawing that suggests that the vessel was a spherical amphora . It could therefore have been a burial of the spherical amphora culture , whereby a gold addition would be very unusual for this.

Grave 5

The possible existence of a fifth grave is only passed down by the field name "Teufelskellerberg" on a historical measuring table . Information on dimensions, orientation and type of grave is not available.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The globe amphora culture in the Middle Elbe-Saale area and in the Altmark (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 41). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-326-00339-9 .
  • 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. 63.
  • Ernst Herms: The megalithic graves of the district of Jerichow I. In: Festschrift of the Magdeburg Museum for Natural and Local History for the 10th Conference on Prehistory. Magdeburg 1928, p. 260.
  • Paul Höfer : Overview of prehistoric publications of the last year in the area of ​​the Saxon and Thuringian countries. In: Annual publication for the prehistory of the Saxon-Thuringian countries. Volume 1, 1902 pp. 252-253 ( online ).
  • Gustaf Kossinna : Development and distribution of the Stone Age funnel beakers, collar flasks and spherical flasks. III. Spherical bottles. In: Mannus. Volume 13, 1922, p. 259.
  • H. Laundry: urn discovery near Groß Lübs 1766. In: Messages from the Association for Anhalt History and Antiquity. Volume 9/3, 1902, pp. 237-239.