Large stone graves near Lehmke
| Large stone graves near Lehmke God's oven (destroyed grave) | |||
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| Coordinates | Lehmke 1 (originally) , Lehmke 1 (today) , Lehmke 2 | ||
| place | Wrestedt , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 798 | ||
The large stone graves near Lehmke were several megalithic graves of unknown numbers from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Lehmke , a district of Wrestedt in the Uelzen district ( Lower Saxony ). Most of the graves were destroyed in the 19th century. Only one existed until the 20th century. It bears the Sprockhoff number 798. In 1971 the plant was destroyed by the farmer on whose land it was located. In 1975 the grave in the museum village Hösseringen was rebuilt using the original stones . The existence of a second grave is recorded by a signature on a measuring table sheet. Numerous other systems were documented by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff in the 1840s , but not described in detail except for one.
location
Grave 1 was about 1 km east of Lehmke and 200 m south of the road to Kahlstorf . Grave 2 was 400 m northwest of this on the northern edge of the road. Von Estorff recorded three graves east of Lehmke: one (listed here as grave 3) was between Lehmke and Kahlstorf, a little closer to the latter place, north of the road, southwest of this he recorded grave 1, the third was further south-west, south of the road to Groß Pretzier . Grave 2 has not yet been mentioned by him (unless the location of the grave north of the road to Kahlstorf was wrong). Other graves mentioned by Estorff northwest of Lehmke. Closest to the place was a group of several large stone graves , burial mounds, and urn graves ; one of the large stone graves was popularly called God's oven . A group of other large stone graves followed to the west and a single large stone grave to the west.
There were originally numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity: West of Lehmke were the four large stone graves near Kahlstorf , of which only two still exist today. To the north were the large stone graves near Hanstedt II , which were destroyed in the 19th century, and to the south-west were the large stone graves of Esterholz , which were also destroyed in the 19th century .
description
The relocated grave 1
The grave had an approximately north-south oriented burial chamber with a length of 3.6 m and a width of 2 m. During three inspections of the original location in 1914, 1927 and 1969 it was found that of the total of eight wall stones, three on the western long side, two on the eastern long side and the end stone on the northern narrow side were still in situ . The southern end stone and the southern wall stone on the eastern long side were carried away a little. Of the three capstones, the northern one was still on the wall stones, but had slipped a little. Its surface has several bowls . Only a fragment of the central capstone remains, the southern one fell into the interior of the chamber. The chamber is to be addressed as a large dolmen .
During the reconstruction of the grave, the wall stones were largely returned to their original position in relation to one another and the two outer cap stones were placed on the wall stones again. The only fragmentary middle capstone is now inside the chamber.
The destroyed grave 2
During the three visits to the site, only several granite blocks , mostly blown up, remained of grave 2 , which did not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the original appearance of the facility. They appear to have been removed later.
The destroyed grave 3
The grave between Lehmke and Kahlstorf had a north-west-south-east orientated megalithic bed with a length of 9 paces (approx. 7 m) and a width of 6 paces (approx. 4.7 m). It was on an artificial hill and had 22 surrounding stones. A burial chamber could not be seen, but it should have been there, as the complex would have been unusually small for a chamberless giant bed .
The rest of the destroyed graves
No further information is available about the remaining graves. When von Estdorff was taken, only the grave on the way to Groß Pretzier was preserved. According to the card signature, it had a rectangular barren bed. No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave. The graves north-west of Lehmke were no longer complete by von Estorff. According to map signatures, at least one in the eastern group (probably the one called God's oven ) and the individual western grave seem to have had a rectangular barren bed.
literature
- Georg O. Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846, ( digitized ).
- Karl Hermann Jacob : The megalithic graves of the district of Ülzen and the protection of the prehistoric monuments. In: News sheet for Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, 1920, pp. 27ff.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 90 ( 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 , pp. 72, 75.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: grave 1 (original location) , grave 1 (current location) , grave 2