Great stone graves near Lütow
| Great stone graves near Lütow Great stone graves near Lütow-Neuendorf, great stone graves near Netzelkow | |||
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 The large stone grave Lütow 1 |
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| Coordinates | Lütow 1 , Lütow 2 | ||
| place | Luetow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 573-574 | ||
The megalithic graves near Lütow (also megalithic graves near Lütow-Neuendorf or megalithic graves near Netzelkow ) were three or four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel beaker culture (TBK) near Lütow on the island of Usedom in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ), two of which are still today exist. These bear the Sprockhoff numbers 573 and 574. Grave 1 was excavated and reconstructed in 1936/37 under the direction of Hans Jürgen Eggers . The found objects first came to Stettin and are now in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald .
location
Grave 1, the easternmost passage grave in Germany, is located directly on the eastern edge of Lütow on the left side of the footpath to Netzelkow . The neighboring street "Am Hünengrab" is named after him. A few meters west of this, on the edge of today's campsite, was the now completely destroyed grave 2. The location of grave 3 is unknown, it may have been identical to grave 2. Grave 4 is 300 m north of grave 1 directly on the northern edge of a small wood .
description
The preserved graves
Grave 1
Annex 1 is a passage grave of the Holstein Chamber type . It has a slightly trapezoidal, north-south oriented barren bed . The stone border has a length of at least 17 m and a width of 6 m in the south and 5 m in the north. 32 curbs are still there. The north-south facing chamber is located in the south part. It has a length of 6.5 m and a width of 2 m. Three wall stones each on the long sides and the northern end stone are still preserved in situ . The southern end stone, two adjoining bearing stones on the western and one adjoining one on the eastern long side as well as all the cap stones of the chamber (probably four) are missing. The spaces between the wall stones were lined with dry masonry . The entrance to the chamber is formed by a corridor between the missing southernmost and the following wall stone on the eastern long side. It consists of a pair of wall stones and a cap stone. The aisle is limited both to the outside and to the inside by two upright threshold stones with side panels.
Among the findings from the grave include ceramic vessels 20, 11 Feuerstein - axes , flint 10 bit , 110 flint blades and jewelry made of amber .
Floor plan of the tomb
Pottery from the grave
Finds made from flint and amber
Grave 4
The grave has a pile of mounds with a small burial chamber, which is probably an enlarged dolmen . The chamber has a length of 2.2 m, a width of 1.6 m and a height of 1 m. Half of the chamber with a closing stone, the two adjoining wall stones and a cap stone is still in situ. Five more stones lie around.
The destroyed grave 2/3
Grave 2, which is probably identical to grave 3, was apparently still well preserved in the first half of the 19th century and consisted of numerous large stones. In the 1860s the stones were blown up and a house was built from them. Using the remaining stones, another house was built in Zinnowitz in the 1880s .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 14.
- Hans Jürgen Eggers : Pomeranian finds and excavations from the 30s and 40s (= Atlas of Prehistory. Supplement 10/11). Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory, Hamburg 1965/1969, plates 1–32.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 125.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 91.
- Prehistory, folklore, regional history and urban culture, ecclesiastical art (messages from the Pomeranian State Museum). In: Baltic Studies. NF Volume 38, 1936, p. 392, Fig. 3 ( online ).
- Prehistory, folklore, regional history and urban culture, ecclesiastical art (messages from the Pomeranian State Museum). In: Baltic Studies. NF Volume 39, 1937, p. 345 ( online ).
- Prehistory, folklore, regional history and urban culture, ecclesiastical art (messages from the Pomeranian State Museum). In: Baltic Studies. NF Volume 41, 1939, pp. 275, 278 ( online ).
- News sheet for German prehistory. Volume 14, 1938, p. 186, plate 39.
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