Great stone graves near Müggenhall

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Great stone graves near Müggenhall
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Great stone graves near Müggenhall (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Müggenhall 1 coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 5.1 "  N , 12 ° 50 ′ 55.6"  E , Müggenhall 2 , Müggenhall 3
place Franzburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 510-512

The megalithic graves near Müggenhall are three megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Müggenhall , a district of Franzburg in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They have the Sprockhoff numbers 510-512. Two of the tombs were in 1953 under the direction of Willy Bastian archaeologically excavated . The finds are now in the Stralsund Museum .

location

The graves are located a good 200 m southwest of Müggenhall. They are roughly arranged in a north-east-south-west running row, which runs almost parallel to today's Triebseer Straße. The three systems are about 125 m apart.

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 has an east-west oriented grave chamber , which is a passage grave of the Holstein chamber subtype , which was originally encased by a rolling stone hill. The chamber has a length of about 6 m, a width of 1.6 m in the east and 2.1 m in the west and a clear height of 1.15 m. The chamber originally consisted of five yokes . In 1953 all four wall stones of the southern long side, the three western wall stones of the northern long side and the western end stone were still preserved in situ . The western capstone lay on the northwest wall stone and a stone slab placed in the corridor. It has a length of 2.2 m, a width of 2 m and a thickness of 1.7 m. The eastern wall stones of the northern long side, the eastern end stone and the remaining cap stones were missing. According to older literature, they were probably blown up before 1700. The chamber now makes a slightly different impression than in 1953. The capstone has sunk into the chamber and the third wall stone on the north side is missing or has been relocated.

The entrance to the burial chamber is located between the first and second western stone on the south side. It consists of a pair of wall stones and two narrow slabs that connect it to the south side of the chamber. The spaces between the wall stones and between the corridor and the chamber were carefully filled with spandrel masonry made of small stone slabs, which was supported from the outside by a coat of earth.

The interior of the burial chamber was divided into five zones by vertically positioned stone slabs: this was initially an inner corridor as a continuation of the access. To the east of it ran a double row of stone slabs, which divided the chamber into a narrow central aisle and two longitudinal chambers. These ended in a small area in the eastern part of the chamber, which again took up the entire width. To the west of the inner corridor were two stone slabs that formed a niche and separated a small room. The southern plate supported the capstone, the smaller northern one only protruded up to about a third of the chamber height. This western area seems to have been created in a second construction phase. The southern plate took on the support function of the southwest wall stone, which had been turned slightly to the southwest from its original position in order to make the western area accessible from the outside.

The pavement of the chamber consists of tamped, standing loam as well as a layer of stone slabs in the corridor or gravel in the central corridor and the southern longitudinal chamber as well as rubble in the eastern chamber area. Traces of fire were also discovered under the gravel in the central chamber area.

Numerous finds that belong to both the funnel beaker culture and the spherical amphora culture come from the grave and its immediate surroundings . The shards of two funnel beakers were discovered in the mound in front of the entrance . In the eastern part of the southern long chamber lay the remains of an ornate bowl together with a cross-edged arrowhead and two broken flint blades . In the niche just west of the inner input another bowl, together with three axtförmigen Bernstein - pearl discovered and a transverse dashing arrowhead. In the following niche, which opened into the western room, there was a bowl with chunks of amber. A decorated bowl probably comes from the southwest corridor . On the north wall of the eastern chamber area stood an ornate one-of-a-kind shoulder vessel. At the east end of the aisle stood a double-conical vessel and two bowls. A group of a spherical vessel, a tubular vessel and the remains of a spherical amphora followed to the west . Two wide-mouthed vessels stood further to the west. Also in the middle lay a thick-necked flint ax and a flint chisel. An undecorated spherical amphora, a flat ax made of flint and two cross-edged arrowheads were discovered in the northern long chamber. The locations of two bowls, a bowl, several ceramic shards, the fragment of a flint chisel, eleven flint blades, two flint knives, three chips and five blade scratches were not documented.

Grave 2

Grave 2 is an east-west oriented ancient dolmen that was originally surrounded by a rolling stone hill. The western end stone and the wall stone of the northern long side are still in situ. The other two wall stones were blown up around 1700. the southern stone is missing, the eastern one lies broken next to the chamber. The capstone slipped inside the chamber. It has a length of 2.58 m, a width of 1.7 m and a thickness between 0.5 m and 0.75 m. It has several bowls . The chamber has a length of 2.34 m, a width of 1.26 m and a clear height of about 1.44 m. The corners of the wall stones were covered with spandrel masonry made of small stone slabs. The eastern wall stone originally only covered the northern half of the east side. The entrance was on the southern half. A threshold stone and a wedge stone were found there. The western part of the chamber is paved with stone slabs.

Far fewer finds were found in the Urdolmen than in the passage grave, as the chamber had already been cleared around 1700. The finds were shards of a funnel beaker, the upper part of a tube-like vessel from the spherical amphora culture, a cross-edged arrowhead, a broken flint blade and several undefined ceramic shards.

Grave 3

Grave 3 is badly damaged and has not yet been investigated. Only three large stones can be seen, which do not allow any precise conclusions to be drawn about the size or type of the burial chamber.

literature

  • Willy Bastian : Two large stone graves from Müggenhall, Kr. Stralsund, and their ceramics. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1953. 1954, pp. 26-44.
  • 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. 13.
  • Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 101.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 124.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 75.

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