Great stone graves near Lütjenbrode
| Great stone graves near Lütjenbrode | |||
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 Graves 2 (left in the background) and 3 (right foreground), view from the southeast |
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| Coordinates | Lütjenbrode 1 , Lütjenbrode 2 , Lütjenbrode 3 | ||
| place | Großenbrode OT Lütjenbrode , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 265-267 | ||
The megalithic graves near Lütjenbrode are three megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Lütjenbrode , a district of Großenbrode in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 265–267.
location
Grave 1 is located north of Lütjenbrode in a field near the beach on the Baltic Sea . Graves 2 and 3 are 1.6 km east-northeast, also close to the beach and right on a path. Grave 3 is located 60 m east of grave 2. 2.6 km northeast of grave 3 are the large stone graves near Großenbrode .
description
Grave 1
The complex has an east-west oriented oval mound with a length of 10 m, a width of 5.5 m and a preserved height of 1.5 m. The burial chamber, which is also oriented east-west, is probably a large dolmen with a length of about 5.5 m and a width of 1.3 m. There are five pairs of wall stones on the long sides. The end stones on the narrow sides and the presumably five cap stones are missing. A pair of smaller stones is attached to the two eastern wall stones, the exact function of which is unclear.
- Grave 1
South side
North side
Detail view
Grave 2
This system has a round mound with a diameter of 10 m and a preserved height of 0.7 m. On top of it lie seven stones from a severely disturbed, perhaps east-west oriented burial chamber. Five stones appear to be fragments of blown capstones. Sprockhoff interpreted two stones as possible wall stones. The exact dimensions and type of the chamber cannot be determined without an excavation.
- Grave 2
Detail view 2
Detail view 1
East Side
North side
Grave 3
This system has a slightly oval mound with a length of 10 m and a width of 9 m. The east-west oriented burial chamber is a passage grave of the Holstein chamber subtype with a length of 5.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. There are four wall stones on the northern and five on the southern long side, the eastern end stone and a not precisely determinable stone northwest of the chamber. The eastern end stone and the adjoining four wall stones on the south side are still in situ . The fifth stone on the south side was blown and fell over. The northern wall stones have been moved. The western capstone is missing. Of the original four cap stones, Sprockhoff was only able to identify a large fragment of the easternmost one lying outside the chamber in 1933. This has now also disappeared. The second and third wall stones on the south side are set across and form the original access to the chamber. In front of you is a corridor with a pair of wall stones. A capstone has not been preserved here. The corridor is 2 m long and 0.6 m wide.
- Grave 3
North side
Detail view 1
Detail view 2
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 71–72.
